$1.5 million National Science Foundation award will help transform more than 50 UC Riverside students into the next generation of science, technology, engineering, and math teachers. The Foundation’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship is building a pipeline to move talented undergraduate STEM students through UCR’s teaching credential programs and into nearby school districts. The award program...
University of California President Janet Napolitano today (Dec. 1) announced the 2017 recipients of the President’s Research Catalyst Awards, chosen from a pool of more than 100 proposed projects. The three awards, totaling more than $2 million, involve faculty and students from across the university with lead campuses at UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz...
The University of California's efforts to streamline the community college transfer process and a pioneering program that launches math and science majors into teaching careers were among several UC programs the White House recognized today (Oct. 15) for investing in high-quality education that will benefit the nation’s Latino community.
By Kate Moser, UC Office of the President | | SMI In the News
In October 2014, the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics launched a Year of Action, and with it a national call for Commitments to Action in honor of its 25th anniversary. In the spirit of what President Obama calls a “shared responsibility,” the Initiative challenged the public and private sectors to make meaningful...
By Kate Moser | UC Office of the President | | SMI In the News
From the time Elizabeth Pierson was 7 and her parents came downstairs to find her in the kitchen mixing baking soda and vinegar — dressed in a raincoat, swimming goggles and rubber gloves — the UC Berkeley senior knew she wanted to be a scientist. As a youngster, Pierson would accompany her father, the director...
Marrielle Myers, a math teacher at Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School in Raleigh, North Carolina, always wanted to be a teacher. “I’m one of those people that taught my baby dolls,” she says. “I would give them assignments and then I would do them and then I would grade them.” “As a student, my one...
High standards for schools will not benefit California if the state lacks enough good teachers. Recent state efforts have cut the number of underqualified teachers in California classrooms. But the governor and Legislature still need to address the huge challenge of ensuring a sufficient supply of first-rate teachers. A report by the Center for the...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) -- UC Riverside Extension recently received a $1 million grant that will fund $30,000 professional development grants for teachers over a two-year period in Riverside, Orange, San Diego and Imperial counties. Groups of three to five elementary, middle and high school teachers at public, private and charter schools teaching in all subject...
Faculty and staff from the Graduate School of Education, ALPHA Center, and the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences recently honored the inaugural class of nine students taking part in a program that aims to prepare science and math majors for careers as teachers. The UC Riverside Noyce Scholarship Program, which started in 2009 and...
An $887,433 National Science Foundation grant from the Robert Noyce Scholarships Program will fund a program that involves more than 50 classrooms in six middle and five high schools, supporting one to15 district mentor teachers per year and approximately 2,000 students in the rapidly growing, low-performing Moreno Valley Unified School District. Surrounding school districts are...
Kayla Bui knows her math skills could land her a lucrative job in the business world when she graduates from UC Riverside, but that's not where she's heading. "I came to UC Riverside knowing I wanted to teach," she said. "With math you could go into business or accounting, but I think that would be...
State officials surprised educators last week by requiring all eighth-graders to take algebra. Reaction against the plan was strong, with some predicting widespread failure and frustration. Schools will have a few years to implement the requirement, but some Inland school districts already require eighth-graders to take algebra. In Corona-Norco Unified, almost all eighth-graders are enrolled...
Using the latest technology, biology teacher Kristine Jennings created a glowing onion by bombarding it with genes from a glowing jellyfish. The lab project at UC Riverside was more than a novelty. It was a way to teach high-school and middle-school science teachers how to demonstrate to students the inner workings of an organism. "That...
A report that was slated for release this week foresees a vibrant, hands-on role for businesses in combating the much-publicized shortfall of math and science teachers in K-12 schools. Members of the Business-Higher Education Forum, an organization made up of Fortune 500 chiefs and higher education leaders, say the United States will need 280,000 new...
America needs a new national council to coordinate efforts to improve the teaching of science and mathematics in schools and colleges, and higher education should play a key role in that undertaking, says a draft report requested by Congress. The report also calls for new standards for training math and science teachers and an expansion...
American business and education leaders examining the nation's educational system found that it isn't living up to the standards of the 21st century global workplace. That is one of the hard facts the National Center on Education and Economy's New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce issued in its December report. "We recruit...
Introduced in the House January 10, 2007 Reported (as amended) by the Committee March 28, 2007 Passed by the House on April 24, 2007 View a list of organizations endorsing this legislation Bill Summary The bill implements most of the K–12 science education recommendations of the National Academies report, “Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing...
American schools aren't exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks. Kids spend much of the day as their great-grandparents once did: sitting in rows, listening to teachers lecture, scribbling notes by hand, reading from textbooks that are out of...
In response to the shortage of highly qualified teachers in California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today signed legislation to streamline the credentialing process, improve support and incentives for new and experienced teachers and help low-performing schools hire the best teachers. Today at John Muir High School in Pasadena, the Governor signed SB 1209 and SB 1655...
Science is getting short shrift in many California classrooms. Elementary schools have been spending more time on math and reading lessons to prepare students for standardized tests, leaving less time for other subjects. That might be starting to change because children must learn about topics such as magnetism and molecules for new state science tests...
