(KAIR)--A teacher at the Atchison County Community Schools is receiving special honors.

According to a news release, USD 377 high school teacher Paul English has been awarded a Summer Fellowship by the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, in Ohio.

The release calls the center “a highly regarded nonprofit provider of educational programs for United States history and government teachers, as well as high school and college students.”

Teachers who are chosen as Summer Fellows “participate in a rigorous week-long graduate-level summer course with other students enrolled in Ashbrook's Master of Arts in American History and Government program.” The release calls the program “the nation's only master's degree program developed specifically for history and government teachers.”

The fellowship is possible through what the release calls “generous funding support from the Philip M. McKenna Foundation.