BOSTON --Massachusetts teachers are ill-trained to teach rigorous science and math to students, whose lack of preparation for the high-tech world jeopardizes the state's economy, according to a report released Wednesday.
The report from Mass Insight Education, a Boston nonprofit organization, said that if the United States was 15th in the Olympics, as the nation is currently ranked in mathematical scores, it would be a "national embarrassment bordering on scandal."
"American students lag scandalously far behind their international peers. Massachusetts (and other states dependent on skills-based jobs) is headed for economic disaster if we do not enable our children to compete in an increasingly technological world."
Notes and observations. Diversions and digressions. All done far too infrequently.
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Math and Science teachers should be paid more than other teachers
The news is grim. Will this be the wake up call?
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