Political Quotes

“The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program at the National Science Foundation aims to increase the number of first-rate math and science teachers in the U.S. The program targets two resources from which to recruit these teachers: one, undergraduates who are majoring in the math and science field; and, two, science and math engineering professionals who want to switch to a teaching degree. The reported version of H.R. 362 considerably expands the Noyce program. It also amends a part of the program that targets undergraduates. But the part of the program that targets professionals was left for the most part unchanged. This amendment establishes within the Noyce program a new model for recruiting professionals to a teaching career. This new model is based on a program called Math for America, which has shown astonishing success in making first-rate teachers out of former scientists and engineers.”