The goal of his Academy is to properly train elementary school teachers to teach math and science in the classroom as 90% of them have no accreditation in these fields.

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To bring more educators into the classroom, the National Math and Science Initiative is working with Texas Instruments and the Dell Foundation to prepare almost 5, 000 new math and science teachers in the next five years -- through a program that allows young people to earn teaching certificates and science degrees at the same time.

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The company is providing training to help 100, 000 math and science teachers improve their skills in the classroom.

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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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Math game developer Sokikon, for example, references U.S. Department of Education-funded research correlating its games to progress in test scores and motivation to learn math (up to 15% improvement in one Arizona classroom).

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Brown and Mr. Smith both teach a classroom of third graders who score at the fiftieth percentile on math and reading tests on the first day of school, in September.

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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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