[Ike] FW: NSF Launches $100M Science Teaching Campaign (NBS#1036)(P/D)

[Weinand, Stacey]

FYI

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NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS COALITIONS
News Brief #1036    Category: Teacher Professional Development
TITLE: "NSF Launches $100 Million Science Education Campaign"

The National Science Foundation has kicked off a $100-million campaign to
improve science teaching across the country.

A series of grants will be distributed to seven coalitions of universities,
school districts and nonprofit organizations working on various areas of
science education. These include teaching algebra to minority students,
upping the use of technology in science classrooms, and training educators
to do science assessments.

One coalition is already underway at the University of Maryland College
Park. Graduate students in mathematics are helping schools in the
Mid-Atlantic region.
The six other coalitions will be based out of Texas A&M University; WestEd,
a federal education laboratory in San Francisco; the University of
Wisconsin-Madison; the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Montana State
University-Bozeman; and, the Exploratorium, a San Francisco museum.

SOURCE: Education Week, 24 October 2001 (p. 05)
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=08nsf.h21
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