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From EdSource: Nearly 1 out of 5 classes in California taught by underprepared teachers
From Center for American Progress: What To Make of Declining Enrollment in Teacher Preparation Programs
From The 74million.org: Why Women Excel at Prized ‘Soft Skills’ but Still Trail Men When It Comes to Being Hired for the STEM Careers of the Future
From Edutopia: 11 Questions You’ll Be Asked at a Teaching Interview
From EdSource: California rural schools struggling to hire teachers could get help from $9.4 million in grants
From Economic Policy Institute: U.S. schools struggle to hire and retain teachers
From AAAS: Preparing Our Next Generation of Science Teachers: What Should a Science Teacher Know and Be Able to Do?
From edweek.org: Responding to Teacher Shortages
From U.S. Innovation: STEM Education in the U.S.: Where We Are and What We Can Do.
From EdSource: Education Statistics: Facts About American Schools
From EdSource: Plan to expose all students to physics missing one element — teachers
From Cornell Chronicle: Study addresses low female participation in STEM classrooms
From EdSource: California finally to move ahead with 'cradle to career' data system
From Edutopia: Why I stay in teaching
From vpnMentor: Teacher’s Guide to Cybersecurity – Everything You Need to Know in 2019
From The Atlantic: Why Kids Should Use Their Fingers in Math Class
From Edutopia: 50 Years of Children Drawing Scientists
From edscoop: "The STEM teacher shortage primarily disadvantages minority students"
From Education Week: "65 Years After 'Brown v. Board,' Where Are All the Black Educators?"
From NPR: Most Teachers Don't Teach Climate Change; 4 In 5 Parents Wish They Did
From the California Aggie: "STEM Majors teach the next generation"
Give Day 2019 - THANK YOU to our generous donors for helping us reach our goal of 20 gifts! Your support for the CalTeach/Mathematics and Science Teaching Program (MAST) is important and very much appreciated. Thank you to Dr. Sandra Carlson for providing this $2,500 challenge gift!
"Forging Future Science Teachers" - Teresa Huang (B.S., chemistry, ’18) is close to achieving her dream thanks to the CalTeach/ Mathematics and Science Teaching Program (MAST) program at UC Davis. “MAST changed my life,” Huang said.
From Hi USA: $2000 Travel Scholarship for Sacramento Area youth (18-30)
From 100Kin10: 10 Big Insights on Teaching
From Eos: High School Teaching Is the New Tenure-Track Job
"Closing the STEM Gap”
"6 grant opportunities for STEM school teachers"
"The U.S. Doesn’t Have Enough STEM Teachers to Prepare Students for Our High-Tech Economy. 4 Steps Toward Addressing That Shortage."
"STEM Is Far More Than the Lone Genius”
From The Public Policy Institute of California:"California Needs More Math and Science Teachers"
From The Washington Post: "Teacher shortages affecting every state as 2017-18 school year begins"
From The Washington Post: "The United States’ growing teaching shortage: How it looks state by state"
From edweek.org: “Next Generation Science Tests slowly take Shape”
From The New York Times: " Schools add "The Martian" to science lessons"
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: "Why STEM Majors Need the Humanities"