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Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D.s to Secondary School Education

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Size: 176 pages, 8 1/2 x 11

Publication Year:2000

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Committee on Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D.s to Secondary School Teaching, National Research Council
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The National Research Council conducted a study to identify a set of incentives that state governments and local school districts can use to attract Ph.D. scientists and mathematicians to secondary school teaching positions. This project investigated the career ambitions ...
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Front Matter	i-xiv
Executive Summary	1-10	(skim)
1 Introduction	11-24	(skim)
2 Will Ph.D.s Consider Careers in Secondary School Science and Mathematics Education?	25-44	(skim)
3 Perspectives on Ph.D.s in Secondary School Science and Mathematics Education	45-52	(skim)
4 Discussion	53-63	(skim)
References	64-66	(skim)
Appendix A: Study Methodology	67-74	(skim)
Appendix B: Focus Group Summaries	75-94	(skim)
Appendix C: Survey of Graduate Students and Recent Ph.D.s: Instruments and Protocols	95-126	(skim)
Appendix D: Interviews with Ph.D.s in K-12 Science and Mathematics Education	127-138	(skim)
Appendix E: Interviews with Administrators	139-158	(skim)
Appendix F: Biographies of Committee Members	159-161	(skim)

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The National Research Council conducted a study to identify a set of incentives that state governments and local school districts can use to attract Ph.D. scientists and mathematicians to secondary school teaching positions. This project investigated the career ambitions of Ph.D.s in the physical and life sciences through focus groups and a national survey to determine the kinds of work conditions and compensation packages that would induce them to take positions teaching physics, chemistry, biology, and various electives in public high schools or positions developing secondary school science and mathematics curricula. The study conducted interviews with Ph.D.s who are already teaching in secondary schools to ascertain information from their experiences, with local school district administrators to assess what they are realistically willing to offer Ph.D. scientists to attract them, and with higher education administrators to explore programmatic changes they would need to institute to provide Ph.D.s with skills tailored to secondary school teaching. These investigations led to this report which describes the incentives local school districts could use in establishing pilot programs in this area.

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