SGER: Improving Supply and Demand Data for the Preparation of Secondary Science and Math Teachers

这里提出的项目旨在(1)对中学和高中数学和科学教学的充分供需情况所涉及的问题进行严格和彻底的分析；(2)确定目前的研究基础在哪些方面足以或不足以告知这一情况；以及(3)尽可能以研究为基础制定一项协议，以帮助各州和大专院校衡量对数学和科学教师的真正当前和计划需求，以及国家机构和教师供应实践满足这些需求的能力。这项工作需要尽快展开，以帮助各州和机构从加紧努力解决科学和数学教师流失的问题中获得最大利益，并从现已签署成为法律的《美国竞争法》中获得新的联邦资金。此外，拟议的项目被视为更全面的全国州立大学和土地赠与学院协会(NASULGC)科学和数学教师教育倡议的核心内容，该项目所设想的工作的及时开始和完成对该倡议的进展和最终成功至关重要。如下文所述，更大的倡议还为传播和应用该项目旨在开发的工具和分析提供了重要的杠杆作用。

The project proposed here seeks (1) to undertake a rigorous and thorough analysis of the issues invlved in delevolping an adequate supply and demand profile for middle and high school mathematics and science teaching; (2) identify the estent to which the currewnt research base is adequate or inadequate to inform that profile; and (3) develop a protocol, grounded in the research to the extentpossible, to help states and post-secondary institutions gauge the true curretn and projet need for mathematics and scienceteachers and the ability to the state's institutions and teacher supply practis to meet those needs. This work needs to be delveloped as soon as possiblein order to help states and institutions derive maximum benefit from their stepped up efforts to address the shrotage of science and mathematics teachers, as well as from new federal funding that will flow from the america COMPETES act that has nowbeen signed into law. In addition, the proposed project is seen as a core element of a more comprehensive National Association of State Universities and Land Grant colleges (NASULGC) initiative on science and mathematics teacher education, and the timely commencement and omptletion of the work envisioned in the project is critical to the progress and ultimate success of that initiative. The larger initiative also provied important leverage, asnotedbelow, for the dissemination and application of the tools and analysis the project aims to develop.