His relatives said he was unpaid for his labors teaching math and economics to fellow Baha'is.
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.
Jessica Gogerty is a National Board Certified teacher, a Presidential Awardee for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching, and a school improvement leader now serving at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa.
Our new secretary should demand that our schools get back to teaching basic math.
We built schools and focused on the teaching of math and science.
And, as I learned from Hastings at the stellar Education Innovation Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona, the former math teacher has used his teaching, technology, and entertainment industry experience to understand the future of education too.
The mayor of Shanghai, China -- a city of over 20 million people -- told me that even in such a large city, they had no problem recruiting teachers in whatever subject, but particularly math and science, because teaching is revered and the pay scales are comparable to professions like doctors.
Opponents may say that a focus on behavioral skills will detract from the teaching of core competencies such as math and science.
The British government is cutting funding to higher education by 40% and wiping out teaching grants for all subjects except science and math.
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Under the leadership of an outstanding Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, we launched a Race to the Top, through which states compete for funding by committing to reform and raising standards, by rewarding good teaching, by supporting the development of better assessments to measure results, and by emphasizing math and science to help prepare children for college and careers.
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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