October 2, 1998

The Need for More Schoolteachers in Science and Math: How Colleges Can Help

By ROBERT F. WATSON

Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley has warned that in the next decade, our public schools will need to hire 2.2 million teachers, to keep pace with rising enrollments and to replace a generation of teachers who are about to retire. Preparing the teachers is the greatest current challenge and responsibility of higher education, and the need for improved education of teachers is particularly acute in science and