PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To improve student achievement; improve the quality of the current and future teaching force by improving the preparation of prospective teachers and enhancing professional development activities; hold institutions of higher education accountable for preparing teachers who have the necessary teaching skills and are highly competent in the academic content areas in which the teachers plan to teach, such as mathematics, science, English, foreign language, history, economics, art, civics, Government, and geography, including training in the effective uses of technology in the classroom; and recruit highly qualified individuals, including individuals from other occupations, into the teaching force.

ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. EDUCATION;
- Higher Education - General;
- Resource Development and Support - Higher Education;
- Teacher Training;

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Education Professional;
- Student/Trainee;
- Welfare Recipient;
- Moderate Income;
- Low Income;
- Major Metropolis (over 250,000);
- Other Urban;

WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Minority Group;
- Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans);