A new national corps of "master teachers" trained in the humanities and social sciences and increased support for research in "endangered" liberal arts subjects are among the recommendations of a major report to be delivered on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
An additional $265 million would be directed to support networks of school districts, universities, science agencies, museums, businesses and other educational entities focused on STEM education, and to finance the creation of a corps of master teachers.
A new report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology offers many worthy ideas for improving science education, like creating a "master corps" of the nation's finest science teachers who would in turn train others; but the STEM word keeps thudding up its pages like so many gristle nubs in a turkey burger.
The master teacher corps proposed annual salary stipends of up to $20,000 for as many as 10,000 teachers once the program was up and running.
Asked to comment on the idea of a STEM master teacher corps, his spokesperson cited Kline's reaction to a report earlier this year that tallied the hundreds of existing federal programs aimed at improving STEM education.
Districts can receive up to $12 million in the first year of a 3-year award, and some of the STEM teachers in those winning districts will become the de facto inaugural cohort for the master teacher corps, explains department spokesperson Liz Utrup.
Do the world diplomatic corps and its political masters have the courage to abandon the arrogance of power, position, and privilege?
In some regions, corps members have the option of earning a master's degree in education as they go through the program.
A master at wrangling his hometown press corps since his early days in real estate, Trump had billed Tuesday's event as a press conference, although he had no intention of taking any questions.
"Oh, man, do they reek," said Tim LaFontaine, the master tug foreman who cares for the corps's boats.
Carl Hubbell, master lefthander of Bill Terry's amazing hurling corps, blazed the trail by firing away for eighteen scoreless innings to win the opening game from the Cards, 1 to 0. . . .
