Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Short of math teachers, Georgia gets some foreign...
...predicament in math and science education is no secret. More than 40 states have reported a serious shortage of math teachers. Of the students being trained in math and science at the nation's universities, many are expected to bypass teaching in favor of better-paying jobs in private industry. In West Germany, on the other hand, 40,000 teachers are unemployed, many of them qualified in math and science. This imbalance gave University of Georgia History Professor and German Emigre Lothar Tresp an idea. Why not use one country's surplus to offset the other...
Some of the groups are created expressly to augment the normal course curriculum. "After my sophomore year," says Adriane P. Concus '84, "I felt as if I was the only one doing Applied Math. There were no role models and no camaraderie...
Several departments math and economics are two examples have taken initiatives to train and supervise their TF's unusually closely...
Kathy speaks for a whole contingent of Lionel when she says. "I'm going to try to finish school, which may be difficult." While speaking vaguely of perhaps switching out of her current joint major of Applied Math and Biology into straight Biology, Kathy says, "Maybe someday I'll go to med school, maybe I'll drop out of school." Jeff speaks of returning in the fall after a two-and-a-half year absence, although he is not sure what he ultimately wants to do with his life. Daniel is going to work for the City of Baltimore...