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

本文提出的项目旨在：(1)对涉及到制定初中和高中数学和科学教学的充分供需概况的问题进行严格和彻底的分析；(2)确定目前的研究基础是否足以或不足以为该概况提供证据；(3)制定一项协议，尽可能以研究为基础，帮助各州和高等教育机构评估当前和未来对数学和科学教师的真正需求，以及各州机构和教师供应实践满足这些需求的能力。这项工作需要尽快开展，以帮助各州和机构从他们为解决科学和数学教师短缺所做的努力中获得最大的利益，以及从新的联邦资金中获得最大的利益，这些资金将来自现已签署成为法律的《美国竞争法案》。此外，拟议的项目被视为更全面的国家州立大学和土地赠款学院协会（NASULGC）科学和数学教师教育倡议的核心要素，项目中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。如下面所述，更大的倡议也为项目旨在开发的工具和分析的传播和应用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.