News About the UTeach Institute Archive
2008
05/19/2008
Educators Gather at UTeach Institute Conference To Discuss Boosting Number of Science Teachers
The National Math and Science Initiative-UTeach Institute Conference May 20-22
2007
12/05/2007
UTD training program aims to multiply math, science teachers
UTD founds training program with funds from Dallas nonprofit
11/30/2007
Program takes aim at teacher shortage
Grant will help attract science, math educators says article in Lawrence Journal
11/16/2007
CU gets $2.4 million grant to teach math, science teachers
Article in the Daily Times Call
11/12/2007
Math and science teacher prep program celebrates 10th birthday
UTeach program featured on The University of Texas at Austin's home page
11/05/2007
UT method of teaching teachers is national model
UTeach program recruits math and science majors and gets them in classrooms early.
11/01/2007
University of Texas at Austin: A Formula for Preparing High-Quality Math and Science Teachers
Math for the masses. Science, too.
10/24/2007
Program Helps Recruit Math, Science Teachers
An innovative program helps recruit new science and math teachers, many who had never considered teaching before, from KPRC.
06/12/2007
UTeach Institute, UTeach program and NMSI highlighted in Inside Higher Ed article
The article, Calling Would-Be Science Teachers, details the recent report by the Business-Higher Education Forum.
04/05/2007
New UH Program Targets Shortage of Math, Science Teachers in Public Schools
To help urban schools attract and retain qualified personnel, the University of Houston is immersing aspiring math and science educators in public school classrooms early in their college careers.
03/12/2007
Dallas Morning News Opinion Column: Will D.C. Follow?
The Dallas Morning News includes this in their March 12, 2007 editorial on the recent NMSI and UTeach Institute announcement: Despite pushes from Mr. Bush and such senators as Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Capitol Hill has been strangely slow in expanding programs that get science into the classroom. So we hope Congress takes note. Fortunately, the private sector's not waiting.
03/10/2007
Education Initiative Expands State Programs Nationwide
Oil giant Exxon Mobil and Dallas lawyer Tom Luce are taking on concerns about U.S. math and science education with a national program to draw students to advanced courses and bring more skilled teachers to classrooms.
03/09/2007
National Math and Science Initiative to support UT teaching program
The University of Texas at Austin's UTeach mathematics and science teacher-preparation program is getting ready to expand nationally thanks to a $125 million commitment to the new National Math and Science Initiative by the ExxonMobil Foundation.
The UTeach Institute website is sponsored by the The ExxonMobil Foundation
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