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EDWARD FRY GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP AWARDED TO WEST ORANGE MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER

West Orange Public School Teacher Carmen Gordillo has received an Edward Fry Endowed Graduate Fellowship at Rutgers University.

Ms. Carmen Gordillo, teacher of English Language Arts at Liberty Middle School and doctoral student at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education, will accept the fellowship for ‘Doctoral students in literacy demonstrating scholarly promise at the Middle or near the end of their program,’ at the Rutgers Reading and Writing Conference in the spring.

Dr. Richard De Lisi, Dean and Professor at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education notes that the fellowship recognizes Ms. Gordillo’s scholarship, and accomplishment as a doctoral student, and brings distinction to both Ms. Gordillo and the Rutgers Graduate School of Education. Ms. Gordillo’s dissertation proposal has been approved by the Rutgers University Institutional Review Board. She begins her research in the spring.

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“Ms. Gordillo’s award of the Fry Fellowship brings distinction to the West Orange Public Schools,” said Liberty Middle School Principal Robert Klemt. “More than 70% of teachers in the West Orange Public School district have advanced degrees with an additional 13% working towards their masters, and 14 teachers hold doctorates.”  

 

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