Teaching Workforce

A new report released Monday by business leaders and educators highlights a call to arms to reverse a large deficit in math and science teachers.The report -- An American Imperative: Transforming the Recruitment, Retention, and Renewal of Our Nation's Mathematics and Science Teaching Workforce -- was released by the Business-Higher Education Forum and provides a comprehensive plan to increase the quantity and the quality of math and science teachers nationwide.The report focused on the need for math and science teachers at the middle school and high school levels and projected a national shortfall of teachers of more than 280,000 by 2015.