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Students who now want to focus their study on computers and programming must major in Applied Math or Engineering and Applied Sciences. A recent poll of students in those two concentrations revealed that a majority would choose the designation of Computer Sciences now under consideration, officials said...
Martin noted that interest in computer study has caused enrollment in the Division of Applied Sciences to double in the past decade. Currently there are about 300 concentrators in both Applied Math and Engineering and Applied Sciences...
...Graduate School of Education may soon institute two new curriculum programs to alleviate the increasing nationwide shortage and poor quality of secondary school math and science educators...
Katherine K. Merceth, Special Assistant to the Dean for Institutional Planning, said yesterday that the plans would help high school education in two ways. The first program, a four-week intensive summer curriculum would help already-certified secondary school math and science teachers learn specific teaching methods and update their mathematical or scientific knowledge...
Officials agreed that a crisis is approaching in the number of actual math and science teachers nationwide, especially in Massachusetts. Fewer people want to become teachers because of the better paying opportunities in private industries--many of which are located in this state. Many teachers are leaving their positions to take more attractive offers. Merceth said that a survey of 218 counties in New England showed that 60 percent of all math teachers planned to leave their jobs within the next two years...