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 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."

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.'"

Related Sourcewatch

 * Nicholas Colangelo, author of "A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students"
 * Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion