John Templeton Foundation

The John Templeton Foundation tries to encourage the integration of religious beliefs and free-market principles into the classroom.

Trustees

Accessed May 2010:

• John D. Barrow
• Paul C. Davies
• Heather Templeton Dill
• David G. Myers
• Stephen G. Post
• Jeffrey P. Schloss
• John W. Schott
• Jane M. Siebels
• Handly Templeton
• John M. Templeton, Jr.
• Josephine (Pina) Templeton
• Gail Zimmerman

Related topics

• Atlas Economic Research Foundation: Templeton and Atlas provide the Templeton Freedom Prizes for Excellence in Promoting Liberty giving $15,000 to "market-oriented poverty programs; for ethics and values; for social entrepreneurship and for student outreach". Under the awards it is planned that $1.25 million will be distributed between now and 2007.
  • Leonard Liggio is executive director of the project.

• Business for Sterling: Received donation from John Templeton.

• E.G. West Centre: Funded the course Educational Freedom: A Global Perspective [1] at the centre, which promotes "market solutions in education".

• Wheaton College (Illinois) "has consistently been the top nominee on the John Templeton Foundation Honor Roll for Character Building Colleges."

External links

• Official website

Press coverage

• John Tierney, When Every Child is Good Enough, New York Times, November 21, 2004
  • "... a recent report, "A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students," by the John Templeton Foundation [] summarizes research showing that gifted children thrive with more advanced material and describes their current frustration ...: 'When they want to fly, they are told to stay in their seats. Stay in your grade. Know your place. It's a national scandal.'"

Resources and articles

Related Sourcewatch

• Nicholas Colangelo, author of "A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students"