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Frederick James Frelow



Ford Foundation
Program Officer

Fred Frelow is Director of Early College Initiatives at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation where he is responsible for managing the development of 14 Early College High Schools. Prior to joining the Foundation, Frelow was Associate Director in the Working Communities division of the Rockefeller Foundation where he was in charge of the continuing development and implementation of the Foundation’s school reform program.

Frelow has also served as Director of National Affairs and Associate Director of Urban Initiatives for the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future at Teachers College, Columbia University, Director of Curriculum for the Nyack, New York public schools, and Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Magnet School Assistance Project at Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens, NY. He taught for twelve years in Newton, MA, public schools.

Frelow has a doctorate in educational administration and policy analysis from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Master’s education and policy analysis from Boston University.