CSU Mathematics and Science Teacher Summit

The California State University convened a Mathematics and Science Teacher Summit on
Meeting California's Challenge in to increase the presence of science and mathematics teachers in the state’s classrooms. The meeting held on March 2, 2006 was a significant milestone for science education in California. Visit www.calstate.edu/teachered/msts for details on this important event.

CSU and California Community College System Memorandum of Understanding

California State University, Office of the Chancellor and California Community Colleges System Office developed a Memorandum of Understanding: Pathways to Mathematics and Science Teaching. This critical MOU spells out important ways that the two systems will work together to improve the serious science and mathematics teacher shortage in the state. Visit  http://www.calstate.edu/PA/news/2006/cccteachers.shtml for the news release on this important development and www.calstate.edu/teachered/msti and read the actual document.

To learn more about the CSU’ s plan to address the growing mathematics and science teacher shortage, visit www.calstate.edu/teachered/msti and click on the heading entitled “Collaborating to Address the Math and Science Teacher Shortage”.

To learn about the California State University Sponsored Science Education Colloquium that took place in September 2006, please visit http://www.calstate.edu/teachered/msti/ScienceEd_Colloquium_Article.shtml for an interesting article on this important meeting with representatives from 23 CSU campuses.

Science Education Reports

• A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. A Report to the Nation
  and the Secretary of Education United States Department of Education
  by the National Commission on Excellence in Education April 1983
• Before It’s Too Late:  A report to the Nation from the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21 st Century

• Critical Path Analysis of California's Science and Mathematics Teacher Preparation System, California Council on Science and Technology and The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning (2007)

• Educating School Leaders, Arthur Levine, Education Schools Project (2005)

• Policy Brief: The High Cost of Teacher Turnover, NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TEACHING AND AMERICA’SFUTURE

• Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future, National Academy Press (2006)

• Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, National Academy Press (2007)

• Tough Chices, Tough Times: The Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, National Center on Education and the Economy (2007)