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Bold Commitments Aim for Dramatic Increase in STEM Teacher Corps
1:28 PM CST on 2.21.2012U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Urges Partners to Raise Bar on STEM Education
New Donor Brings 100Kin10 Fund to $24 Million. New Online Registry Facilitates Applications to Fund
1:28 PM CST on 2.21.2012Rockbridge County Schools Listed On College Board's AP Honor Roll
10:25 AM CST on 2.20.2012Virginia Students Ranked Third In Nation in Advanced Placement (AP) tests.
10:25 AM CST on 2.20.2012Obama's Plea to the Press: Give STEM Attention
12:41 PM CST on 2.13.2012Tuesday, President Obama hosted more than 100 student science fair winners from around the country at the White House. He used the chance to announce a host of new science and math education initiatives, but he also made a "special plea" to the press: This stuff is important. Spread the word.
12:41 PM CST on 2.13.2012Obama Hosts Top Teenage Scientists
12:38 PM CST on 2.13.2012President Obama hosted some of America’s top young scientists Tuesday at the White House. The president also announced new steps to boost the country’s output of leading scientists.
Fourteen-year-old business owner Joe Hudy and one of his inventions, a compressed air cannon that shoots marshmallows, attracted President Obama’s attention at the White House Science Fair.
12:38 PM CST on 2.13.2012White House initiative aims to boost science, math training
12:38 PM CST on 2.13.2012President Obama pumps a gun designed by Joey Hudy, left, of Phoenix, to shoot a marshmallow in the State Dining Room. Joey's device was on display Tuesday at a White House student science-and-tech fair.
12:38 PM CST on 2.13.2012Ft. Carson student at White House science fair
12:36 PM CST on 2.13.2012Arimus Wells, a studnet at Funtain Fort Carson High School is among a group of students from across the nation who is participating today, Feb. 7, in the White House Science Fair .
President Obama plans to deliver remarks during the Science Fair to an audience of students, science educators and business leaders on the importance of STEM education to the country’s economic future.
12:36 PM CST on 2.13.2012If There's One Thing I've Learned, It Was Taught to Me
12:32 PM CST on 2.13.2012Mary Ann Rankin, CEO, NMSI
The Huffington Post
White House and Universities Pledge Greater Effort to Retain Science Students By Paul Basken
10:52 AM CST on 2.8.2012by Paul Basken -
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Mary Ann Rankins on how the National Math+Science Initiative prepares math teachers
9:57 AM CST on 2.7.2012By William McKenzie/ Editorial Columnist
Dallas Morning News
Editor's Note: The Education Front asked Dr. Mary Ann Rankin to explain how the organization she heads, the National Math and Science Initiative, helps teachers become better math instructors. Rankin is CEO and president of NMSI, which is based in Dallas.
9:57 AM CST on 2.7.2012