Press
release announcing Mathemtatics and Science Initiative:
http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/research/progs/mathscience/index.html
Release
on NAEP:
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/mathematics/
Latest
on TIMMS:
http://nces.ed.gov/timss/
Information
on MSP:
http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/math/ms/edlite-index.html
Secretarial
statement on NAEP scores:
http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2004/12/12142004.html
Middle
school math curricula not based on evidence:
http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2004/11/11172004.html
NSF
National Science Digital Library announcement:
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/newsroom/pr.cfm?ni=15100000000123
Building
a Nation of Learners, Business Higher Education Forum:
http://www.bhef.com/publications/building.cfm
TEACHER
LOAN CHANGES
Attention teachers! The Taxpayer-Teacher Protection
Act, signed into law last year, authorizes up to $17,500
in loan forgiveness for eligible, highly qualified
math, science, and special education teachers. This
dramatic increase—$12,500 above the previous
limit of $5,000—is meant to ease the shortage
of teachers in important subject areas. To be eligible,
teachers (with no outstanding loan balances before
October 1, 1998, and who borrow before October 1,
2005) must be highly qualified, as defined in the
No Child Left Behind Act; teaching full-time, for
five consecutive years, in a Title I school; and teaching
secondary math or science or elementary or secondary
special education to students with disabilities. Also,
an otherwise eligible teacher who has already received
loan forgiveness may receive further loan forgiveness—up
to the difference between $17,500 and the amount previously
forgiven. For more information, Please go to:
http://www.ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/GEN0414.html
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