It’s grad school at the museum for NYC students

Published February 15, 2014 8:54pm ET



NEW YORK (AP) — Growing up on Long Island, Katie Warner used to visit New York City’s American Museum of Natural History and remembers being frightened of the 94-foot-long blue whale model that’s suspended from the ceiling in the Hall of Ocean Life.

So it was “surreal” for Warner to return to the museum in summer 2012 to start a 15-month master’s program in teaching — the only freestanding master’s program at a museum in the U.S.

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