The new report "couldn't come at a better time", says Gerald Wheeler, executive director of the National Science Teachers Association in Arlington.

位于阿灵顿的美国国家科学教师协会执行理事杰拉尔德·惠勒表示，这份新报告“来得正是时候”。

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Science teachers are particularly scarce.

科学课程方面的教师尤其稀缺。

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Now a lot of the science teachers are gone, and they got rid of the auto-shop classes and the welding classes.

很多科学老师走了，他们不再上汽车和焊接类的课了。

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The award was established by the Biotechnology Institute to honor high-school educators who are bringing biotechnology to their classrooms and encouraging fellow science teachers to do the same.

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Schools in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey, he says,are among those doing, "reasonably well" at incorporating the biosciences into state science standards, supporting advanced courses and ensuring science teachers are well-qualified.

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Administrator Bolden says other studies indicate the United States is not preparing enough students and teachers to meet the demand in science,technology,engineering, and mathematics.

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Part of the problem is that the U.S. lacks enough computer science teachers, said Wang.

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So help me recruit 100, 000 new math and science teachers in the next 10 years.

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Samoa has identified the lack of qualified secondary science teachers as a major concern.

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