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Then there is the problem that colleges are not graduating enough competent
science and math teachers. Indeed in many states the flow has reduced to a
trickle.
There is one bright spot in TX. Univ of TX at Austin has started a program
called UTEACH which integrates training in PER and Science research
curricula into science teacher training. It has dramatically increased the
production of new science teachers and increased the 5 year retention rate.
John M. Clement
Houston, TX
I especially like the final quotation from Sanford Smith... "you
shouldn't have to work that hard to make physics exciting, because ... "
- he pauses, on the edge of the great unmentionable - "it is exciting.
You just need to know enough about it."
That seems a difficult hurdle... Getting students sufficiently into
physics that they see the excitement.
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