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HHMI Bulletin May 2012	President's Letter: Critical Thinking Though our efforts to improve the training of STEM teachers and students are modest in the big picture, we hope the work becomes an amplifying mechanism. And with new initiatives coming out of our science education group, we plan to have an even bigger influence on STEM education in this country.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010	National Awards to Foster Science Education In May, HHMI announced $79 million of new grants to help universities strengthen undergraduate and precollege science education nationwide.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Cori Vanchieri	Jo Handelsman: Engage to Excel How to keep STEM students from jumping ship?
T.H.E. Journal September 2005 Larry Hines	Interactive Learning Environment Keeps Modesto Students Engaged The Classroom Performance System provides four district junior high math and science classes with a wireless, collaborative, instant-response learning solution.
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser	Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers.
Job Journal April 20, 2008	Career Snapshot: School Teacher Our children are the future, and school teachers are entrusted with the responsibility of educating and inspiring them.
T.H.E. Journal March 2005 Douglas Kellner	The Changing Classroom: Challenges for Teachers The integration of technology in classrooms has obligated teachers to develop new teaching strategies to enhance learning across the curriculum.
T.H.E. Journal April 2004	The Math Slate The Math Slate uses an old-fashioned chalkboard motif to teach students ages 5 through 10 basic math skills.
T.H.E. Journal April 2005 Tom Steinke	TinkerPlots Turns Students Into Data Analysts Students are learning to analyze data by using TinkerPlots, software that allows students to reason beyond simple computation.
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	Using Technology to Maintain Competitiveness: How to Get Our Groove Back As China and India threaten the supremacy of the US economy, our best hope for keeping pace is putting ed tech funding to use to galvanize education.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012	HHMI Awards $50 Million to Colleges Forty-seven small colleges and universities have accepted a challenge: to create more engaging science classes, bring real-world research experiences to students, and increase the diversity of students who study science.
CIO September 14, 2012 Gary Beach	Time to Pay It Forward for Better Educated IT Workers The author knows American students lag behind other countries in STEM and thinks McKinsey's 'Closing the Talent Gap' report may be on to something. Is it time we incentivize our best students to forgo the private sector for jobs in public education?
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010	Science Education Outreach Targets Students In Rural Schools Many of HHMI's science education grantees are focusing their outreach efforts on teachers and students from rural schools. Because long-distance travel is often out of the question, they are sending curricula and materials to rural teachers.
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Robert Gutnikoff	Lab on the Move When the high school classroom setting is lacking, enter the mobile lab from the University of Texas -- Pan American, in Edinburg, funded with HHMI grants in 2004 and 2008.
T.H.E. Journal August 1999 Jody C. Isernhagen	Technology: A Major Catalyst for Increasing Learning "If you can conceive of it, you can achieve it." (Kennedy Space Center, Florida) A rural Nebraska public school district adopted this philosophy when they applied for a three-year competitive Excellence in Education Grant in late 1995....
T.H.E. Journal October 2005 Melissa LeBoeuf Tothero	University of Texas at Austin Explores LIFE The innovative laptop initiative engages the College of Education's pre-service teachers in a technology-rich learning environment that helps them prepare their students for a future in our high-tech world.
T.H.E. Journal June 2002 Douglas W. Green & Thomas O'Brien	The Internet's Impact on Teacher Practice and Classroom Culture Does Internet use result in an increase in constructivist teacher practices? What other features of classroom life are impacted when the Internet is used as a source of information for student research projects?
T.H.E. Journal July 2008 David L. Silvernail	Middle Schools : Maine : Laptops for All Since its launch, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) has provided all of the state's middle school students, and their teachers, with laptop computers.
T.H.E. Journal August 2001	On the Web Cross-disciplinary, interactive educational Web site designed to build language, social studies and technology skills for middle school students... Web site offers guidelines for selecting computer software and other technological resources that empower young women... etc.
ifeminists October 29, 2002 Glenn Sacks	The Teachers' 'Code of Silence' Police officers are well-known for their "code of silence" -- their hesitation to divulge information about the misdeeds of other officers. Educators have a similar code, and our silence serves to keep failing teachers in the classroom, to the detriment of thousands of students.
BusinessWeek June 26, 2006	Best Practices: A Top 10 List Frustrated by the meager payoff from its traditional efforts to improve schools, a new generation of business philanthropists is developing innovative approaches to solving this seemingly intractable problem.
T.H.E. Journal April 2006 Appu Kuttan & Laurence Peters	Calculating a Future That Doesn't Add Up Failing to reverse the trends in our math and science education will have severe effects on our children's welfare - and the nation's, too.
T.H.E. Journal April 2003 Chuck Grant	Math Sites Offer Helpful Homework Solutions If students and teachers search the Web for "math homework help," you may be surprised by all of the free, constructively helpful sites that are available.
T.H.E. Journal October 2001 Paul Ohme & James Rayford	Hands-On Professional Development Innovative program allows Georgia teachers to bring real-world work experiences into the classroom...
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Gale Cooley	Professional Development: Westside School Celebrates the Successful Infusion of Technology into State Curriculum Westside School has just finished having a successful "Technology Celebration" that indicated how they are infusing technology into the Tennessee state curriculum by showcasing student demonstrations and projects.
HHMI Bulletin May 2011	HHMI Announces $60 Million Competition for Colleges Challenging colleges and universities to think creatively about how they teach science, HHMI has invited 215 undergraduate-focused institutions across the country to apply for a total of $60 million in science education grants.
T.H.E. Journal July 2008 Mary Ann Wolf	High Schools : An Equation That Works As secondary students continue to show little interest in the four STEM subjects, combining technology use with engaging instructional practices may be the only way to reach them.
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Cori Vanchieri.	Susan Singer: A Magical Moment The time to entice students to be STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teachers is during the first years of college, says Susan Singer, a professor of natural sciences at Carleton College.
T.H.E. Journal April 2004	MathFacts in a Flash MathFacts in a Flash is a software program that addresses assessment and instruction with more than 40 levels of different math skills.
T.H.E. Journal December 2008	THE Journal's 2008 Innovators :: 1 Three innovative teachers demonstrate how they bring new technology into their classrooms.
Geotimes October 2004 Jay Chapman	Seeing No Child Left Behind The highly controversial No Child Left Behind Act is at the center of the election-year debate on education reform.
T.H.E. Journal June 2002 Mary Burns	From Black and White to Color: Technology, Professional Development and Changing Practice The aim of this project was to help teachers create learner-centered, technology-rich learning environments. For the most part, instruction in these schools was traditional and technology use was virtually nonexistent.
T.H.E. Journal December 2004 Cecile M. Arquette	A University-Public School `Key-Pal' Partnership Thoughtful teachers must find time to fit technology into their crowded schedules. One way to accomplish this task is to combine pen pals, an old technique, with the Internet to create electronic pen pals called "key pals."
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Ann McMullan	Technology Integration: Klein ISD Moves From Learning to Use Technology to Using Technology to Learn Klein Independent School District faced the challenge of assuring that all students in the district would have the opportunity to master the Technology Applications Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.
T.H.E. Journal August 2006 Michelle Gamble-Risley	Surviving Accountability: As Easy as AYP Data-driven strategies and personalized instruction are paving the way to higher test scores, one student at a time.
CIO January 1, 2006 Gary Beach	A Sensible Proposal America needs math and science teachers. You have knowledgeable employees getting ready to retire. See the connection? IBM does.
T.H.E. Journal January 2007 Justine Brown	Targeted Instruction :: On Target Using technology to pinpoint problem academic areas can enable students to catch up, keep up, and get ahead.
T.H.E. Journal April 2006 Lisa A. Petrides	ISKME Special Series Part 3: Using Data to Improve Instruction Are you using the right tests? The correct assessment methods? The best technology? These are only a few of the issues that must be addressed in the effort to use data to change teacher practice.
T.H.E. Journal October 2001 Lea Ann Lockard	Collaborative Technology Planning The impact of technology plans on students' and teachers' learning...
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Geotimes June 2005 Megan Sever	Golfer Phil Mickelson on Science The golfer and his wife Amy recently partnered with ExxonMobil to create a week-long workshop to help third- through fifth-grade teachers gain the necessary tools to excite their students about math and science.
T.H.E. Journal September 2, 2009 Ruth Reynard	5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best Face-to-face instruction is often assumed to be the proven method, while other methods have yet to prove themselves. This assumption is not only misleading, but it might also be helping to diminish potential opportunities of better learning for our students.
T.H.E. Journal October 2004 Chris Rother	Evaluating Technology's Role in the Classroom Teachers are using computers more than ever before for everything from instruction to handling administrative chores and communicating with parents.
T.H.E. Journal April 2004	MATH TREK Algebra 1 For curriculum-based algebra instruction, teachers and students can use MATH TREK Algebra 1.
T.H.E. Journal May 2004 Cathryn Harvey	Special Education Solutions in the Age of NCLB While an individualized approach to connecting assessment with instruction is helping mainstream students succeed, there have not been solutions that special education teachers can adopt in helping with the issues surrounding standardized testing.
National Defense March 2011 Cynthia D. Miller	National Science Foundation Supports STEM Education Of equal importance to the foundation is the support of science and engineering education, from pre-kindergarten through graduate school and beyond, with a variety of fellowships and programs specifically for teachers and students.
T.H.E. Journal April 2001	On The Web Student performance enhancement and college prep service provider aims to make college a reality for every student... Web site offers a place for students to exchange their old textbooks for ones that they currently need... Teaching children about preventing injuries in the home... etc.