The program's vast scope, encompassing school-age children, graduate students, and classroom teachers, muddies the waters further, notes Texas A&M University mathematics professor David Sanchez, former chair of an advisory panel to NSF's education directorate.
It's about us having a relationship with the society we represent," says Colonel Simon Stockley, whose role as head of army recruitment encompasses schools and community outreach.
She quickly got to work, starting what might be considered the world's first all-encompassing school for aspiring drag queens and kings.
Those years have not encompassed drama school.
Her responsibilities encompass HR, school business management, whole school CPD and leadership and management development, while she also works closely with the finance, IT and admin teams.
The MSOD project is unique with its comprehensive national survey methodology, encompassing medical schools in Australia, and New Zealand.
The neighborhood encompasses six schools - two elementary, two middle and two high schools - serving some 11,000 residents, about half of them under the age of 17.
The trend encompasses city schools as well.
A small-scale experiment with merit pay in New York City, called Breakthrough for Learning, was established in 1998 and eventually encompassed 47 schools in an impoverished part of Brooklyn using money put up by businesses like Goldman Sachs and Chase Manhattan.
Thomas, who was last year's top scorer in all of Section 1, which encompasses high schools in Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Dutchess Counties, was voted by coaches as the league's most valuable player and was named to both all-league and all-section teams for the fourth consecutive year.
But Don Kirkegaard, the superintendent of the Meade School District, which encompasses 11 schools over 3,200 square miles, said that although some of his institutions were isolated, he did not see any evidence to suggest that they would be safer if teachers were armed.
