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

by Center for Education, Committee on Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D.s to Secondary School Teaching, Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel Advisory Committee

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309071763
• ISBN13: 9780309071765
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 175 Pages