How to fix the STEM deficit

05-19-2011

Guest blog by Arthur Levine/Washington Post

This week, 85 math and science teachers are receiving the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Widely regarded as the nation’s highest honor for a K-12 educator in those fields, this award comes with a $10,000 prize. For those deserving educators, and for the students lucky enough to be in their classes, it’s an occasion to celebrate. For the rest of us in education, however, it’s a wake-up call. The Presidential Award program has slots for 106 teachers, so there should be 21 more awardees: A fifth of the annual awards went unclaimed because not enough science and math teachers at the elementary level made the cut. (more...)

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