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K-12 Science and Mathematics Education
K-12 Science and Mathematics Education
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Teacher Recruitment, Training, and Support School systems throughout the country struggle to hire teachers who are qualified to teach science and mathematics. "More than 60 percent of the math teachers in this coun try teaching fifth through eighth graders are not either a math major or certified in math," said Ride.
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The America COMPETES Act authorized a program called Teachers for a Competitive Tomorrow, which is modeled in part after the UTeach program at the University of Texas. The UTeach program encourages undergraduate students to take courses in science, mathematics, and engineering while also earning a teaching certificate.
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The program would use the recent report of the National Mathematics Panel to strengthen math education in ele mentary and middle schools so that students enter high school ready to take challenging math coursework. Teacher training would be an essential part of this program, because "teachers matter a lot," according to Professor Francis (Skip)
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"That means there are 21 states already on a waiting list that Congress can help us fund," said Tom Luce. Support for Basic Research Rising Above the Gathering Storm called for the federal government to increase its investment in long-term basic research by 10 percent each year over the next seven years.
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, the budgets of the Department of Energy's Office of Science from 2006 through 2008 were almost flat. For fiscal 2008, this meant that essentially no new proposals for solar energy research were funded by the DOE Office of Science, and many programs received cutbacks." The National Science Foundation was able to support 1,000 fewer new research grants in 2008 and 230 fewer graduate research fel lows, with more than 3,000 faculty research ers, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and undergraduates affected.
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So it's not a mat ter of money. It's a matter of will." The Gathering Storm report also called on the federal government to provide research grants to early-career researchers, support research instrumentation and facilities, allo cate funding to high-risk, high-payoff research, institute awards to stimulate scientific and engineering advances, and create an Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy to address environmental, energy, and security issues.
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