MU Receives Grant to Develop an Answer for Teacher Shortage

The National Science Foundation reports teacher recruitment has reached crisis lows in some areas of the country. The Foundation is helping fight that problem with its two-million dollar grant to the University of Missouri-Columbia. The Director of MU’s Science Education Program, Sandra Abell, says the grant will help the university develop much-needed teacher certification programs for individuals with math and science degrees, but without a degree in education. Researchers will use the new grant to study different groups of 90 individuals each, to determine how those individuals develop their knowledge of teaching.