Plan Seeks To Increase Minorities in Math, Science
WASHINGTON--An advocacy group for minority education last week unveiled a plan for improving science and mathematics instruction that calls for a five-fold increase in the number of minority students who enter precollegiate teaching by the year 2000.
At least 30 percent of those new teachers would teach math and science, officials of the Quality Education for Minorities Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Network proposed at a press conference here.
The plan notes demographic projections indicating that increasing numbers of minorities will enter the workforce by the turn of the century. As a result, it is "imperative that the nation take extraordinary steps to maintain America's leadership in science and technology by preparing minorities for greater levels of participation'' in science, math, and...
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