Word: math
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Some 33 states have passed, or are considering, incentive programs to attract students and qualified teachers to science labs and math classrooms. In Kentucky, 95 students last year received up to $2,500 toward their college costs; if they spend one year as math or science teachers in a Kentucky public school, one year of their loan will be canceled. At least half a dozen states are reconsidering their certification procedures to emphasize knowledge of subject matter over teaching methodology. Such changes could open the teaching field, largely dominated by education majors, to graduates with liberal arts degrees...
...improve the prestige and power of the job, to restore its practitioners' self-respect. Says A.F.T. President Albert Shanker: "We give people poor salaries, then we lock them in a room with a bunch of kids and instead of letting them teach a subject they know-Shakespeare or math-we have them doing everything else, teaching 'Living,' 'Loving,' 'Life Adjustment.' " Maintains San Francisco School District Administrator Carlos Cornejo: "We don't give teachers the recognition they need. We have them teaching in leaky rooms and supervising the boys' John in between...
...Teachers Institute. Each semester eight senior Yale professors conduct seminars with 80 city teachers on such topics as Greek and Roman mythology and the elements of architecture. In addition, the teacher "fellows" become part of the Yale community, with privileges ranging from parking to library use. Says junior high Math Teacher Sheryl DeCaprio: "It sort of makes you feel professional again...
...mortgage paid off, Selman is quitting his $50,000-a-year job as an electrical engineer at Mitre Corp. Mitre is paying Selman's $8,320 tuition. When he finishes the program, which includes 14 weeks of student teaching, Selman will be accredited to teach science and math in Massachusetts schools, and he is looking forward to being "able to effect a permanent change in a student's intellect or attitude...
Many computers are used as high-tech flash cards in math and spelling. Scorning such applications, computer scientists argue that students should be "computer literate," and then argue among themselves about what that means. Berkeley Computer Educator Arthur Luehrmann, who coined the term, has defined it as "the ability to do computing and not merely to recognize, identify or be aware of alleged facts about computing." M.I.T. Professor Seymour Papert, author of the influential book Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas, agrees, insisting that all children should be taught to program computers, both for the intellectual exercise...