Panel Ponders Ways To Get, Keep Good Math and Science Teachers

A federal commission is promising to unveil what could be a multibillion-dollar plan to attract and keep the 200,000 people needed to teach math and science in the nation's schools.

But, midway through their one-year charge, panel members don't know exactly what form their proposals will take.

"This commission ought to come out with some big and bold ideas," Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. of North Carolina said at the March 6-7 meeting of the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching...

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