Ben Bernanke, who would probably make a fine high school math teacher, knows nothing about economics.
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Stevenson told me that his favorite teacher was a high school math teacher, George Barton.
In the early 1980s he abandoned a career as a high school math teacher to strike it rich in Silicon Valley.
Medbery, a former software developer, high school math teacher and Teach For America alum, built her business on the theory is that no classroom is, or should be, an island unto itself.
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He came to Bernstein in 2001, the youngest analyst at the time, and two years later joined the tech strategy group run by the estimable Vadim Zlotnikov, captain of his high school math team in Brooklyn and an electrical engineering double-degree-holder from MIT.
He had been regarded as a math prodigy from early childhood, and he could solve high-school math problems by the time he was in third grade.
She first grew interested in the subject after working as a high-school math teacher.
What I did know at the age of 19 is that I had excelled in high school in math and science and at baseball outside of the classroom.
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One high-school math assignment involved a coloring project.
Gates wants to see more funding for a National Science Foundation program for math, science and engineering graduates students, and he suggested that at the high school level, math and science teachers should be paid more.
The classes will be supervised by a high school English teacher, a middle school Math teacher, and former veterinary technician.
On my first day of high school, going into math class, two of my classmates pointed and laughed at me.
My question is this -- and I'm speaking on behalf of all of us math teachers up here -- when you were a freshman in high school specifically, did you have math homework every night?
Our children are coming out of high school -- in some cases, they're not even graduating high school, but even if they graduate from high school -- ranked lower on math and science scores than many other advanced industrialized countries.
Over the next ten years, nearly half of all new jobs will require education beyond high school, many requiring proficiency in math and science.
To plan for a sustainable future there needs to be a consideration of more than how much money we have in our pockets and how complex a math equation our high school and college students can calculate.
But she was vital in keeping Anthony organized during his senior year of high school, said Kenneth Borre, who had both students in math class at their Chicago charter school.
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Yes, he studied math at Harvard, but the math on OkTrends was high school level.
There are national competitions for academic high school students, whether spelling bees, math Olympics, and national debate championships.
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The last member of the group, a slight, nervous-seeming man with a grey goatee had retired this past summer after 40 years of teaching math in a Fort Worth high school.
Mr. Flagg, a star on Bravo's "Million Dollar Listing, " first started selling homes nine years ago midway through his senior year at Beverly Hills High School, closing deals via text message in math class.
This program will provide extra help to middle- and high school students who fall behind in reading and math, expand Advanced Placement programs in low-income schools, and invite math and science professionals from the private sector to teach part-time in our high schools.
Tara Whittington, a math teacher at Villa Rica High School near Atlanta, Georgia, who makes hand sanitizer available for her students, considers school closures a waste of time if only one student has H1N1, but supports dismissal if a quarter of the students become ill.
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He and pal Scott Kolb conceived of Slader in 2010, after reminiscing about their high school days in San Diego when they struggled with math homework.
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In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children, like Georgia or Oklahoma, studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, and form more stable families of their own.
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Speaking at the headquarters of the 3M Company, which makes products ranging from post-it notes to high-tech fuels cell components, he called for tax credits for business research, increased money for federal science programs, and he talked about the need to improve math and science skills of American high school students.
The daughter of a GM diemaker, Barra was a math-and-science whiz in high school in Waterford, Mich.
In addition to high school classes, writing for the school paper, assisting with the athletic teams and getting comfortable with numbers and math concepts are also helpful.
All of us want our kids to grow up more likely to read and write and do math at grade level, to graduate high school, hold a job, and form more stable families of their own.
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