‘Adjunct Teachers’ Could Do End Run Around NCLB Act
A White House proposal to bring math, science, and engineering professionals into public high schools to teach those subjects could bypass the “highly qualified” teacher mandate under the No Child Left Behind Act, while only temporarily easing the shortfall of mathematics and science teachers, education observers say.
President Bush’s fiscal 2007 budget seeks $25 million for the Adjunct Teacher Corps, as the initiative is being called. It would encourage 30,000 experienced professionals by 2015 to become adjunct teachers and “provide real-world applications for some of the abstract mathematical concepts being taught in the classroom.” Such teachers, the thinking goes, would provide instruction in high-need schools on a relatively short-term basis.
The adjunct-teacher proposal is part of a broader plan to upgrade mathematics and science teaching...
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