Program Aimed at Adding to Ranks of Math Teachers
High school juniors and seniors from Cincinnati Publics Hughes Center Magnet Programs and Princeton City Schools are about to join a program to get them thinking about a career they may have never considered before.
The Southwest Ohio STEM Secondary Teacher Academy a proposal awarded $340,000 jointly to UC and Miami University by the Ohio Board of Regents will provide an intensive, three-week summer experience, an internship, free college credit (as well as high school credit) in calculus or algebra, and intensive mentoring for 50 high-school students.
The year-long academy, which will get under way this summer, aims to identify high school students who could become promising future high school math teachers.
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