Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House of Representatives approved a bill last Wednesday that would allocate $1 billion over the next five years to improving math and science teaching in the public schools through grants to states and local school districts. Though the measure is stopgap in itself, its strength lies in a provision that designates $50 million in scholarships over the next two years for students who plan to go on to teach in either math or science. Such an approach at least attempts to make teaching more lucrative--in the long run the only way to replenish the profession's depleted ranks. Officials...
...weeks ago the Reagan Administration proposed its own plan, which would set aside in its 1984 budget $200 million to retrain teachers certified in other subjects for instruction in science and math. Working through state agencies, the plan would provide up to $5000 for unemployed and newly certified teachers. While officials in educational organizations were encouraged by the Administration's concern, they are quick to point out the meagerness of the plan in the face of an enormous crisis. One official in the National Education Association estimated in The New York Times that the plan would provide one teacher each...
...more imaginative approach needed to crack the problem is a new strategy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, aimed at dealing with the dearth of science and math teachers in Massachusetts. The Ed School intends to set up a 15-month program for middle aged workers from the technological industries, retraining them to teach science and math. These people would retire early from their current jobs and bring infusion of skill and knowledge to the hurting high school curriculums. The plan is not meant as a panacea but as a model, since it will enroll only 25 "students...
...open up a tremendous number of job opportunities. Locally, Boston-based genetic engineering is predicted to have a considerable effect on the area's economy. Yet in years to come, young people will find it increasingly difficult to secure a place in these burgeoning industries without the fundamental math and science skills upon which they are based, skills the high schools must provide...
...less brain-power is available because nobody was there to develop it. Such actions as Congress' proposed bill and the Ed School's retraining program are welcome efforts in an otherwise bleak situation, but they represent only a beginning. Major strides in filling high school staffs with competent math and science teachers will only occur when these teaches receive higher salaries. As long as they are paid paltry amounts for this important task young and would-be teachers alike will continue to abandon the teaching profession for high-paying jobs in business, industry or medicine. The problem can be solved...