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Today, President Obama announced the聽immediate聽creation of new national corps of leading math and science educators to improve education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). 聽The STEM Master Teacher Corps initiative aims to help schools and districts do what they haven鈥檛 traditionally done very well: broaden the reach of our best teachers. 聽The program has some hurdles to clear, but [...]
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Today, the President announced a $1 billion initiative to boost science, technology, engineering, and math (鈥淪TEM鈥�) education in the country.聽 His plan calls for the creation of the Master Teacher Corps, which aims to hire highly qualified teachers to prepare today鈥檚 students for the 21st century economy.聽 聽If implemented, the plan would hire 2,500 teachers across the country now, and grow to 10,000 [...]
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April鈥檚 jobs report was released today and showed that, while the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 percent, overall economic growth was sluggish as employers across the country showed their reluctance to add to their payrolls.聽 Speeding up the recovery has long been a focus of policymakers, yet today鈥檚 report demonstrates that closer attention must be paid to the gaps in the skill sets of today鈥檚 workforce.聽 [...]
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We might end up calling last night's State of the Union address the "tech talk".聽 The President's speech touched on a litany of technology issues, making it sound as if he was pitching TechElect for us.聽 Instead of rehashing the President's speech point by point, we would like to focus on two issues he raised -STEM and immigration reform.聽 Both issues often receive broad, bipartisan support and are [...]
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