December 21, 2007

We Need to Invest in Math and Science Teachers

By LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND

When I entered elementary school in the mid-1950s, the nation was responding to Sputnik, and our shortcomings in teaching math and science to schoolchildren were of grave

concern. Aggressive federal recruitment and training programs for teachers during the 1970s created a brief respite, but those programs ended in the early 1980s. Severe shortages of math and science teachers were rampant again by the 1990s and continue today. As Yogi Berra put it, we are seeing "déjà vu

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