|
|
|
AEP Online |
President Creates National Math Panel Under American Competitiveness InitiativeIn his State of the Union address earlier this year, President Bush announced his intention to introduce a strategy to keep the United States among the top innovators in the world. The American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) commits $136 billion over 10 years to "increase investments in research and development (R&D), strengthen education, and encourage entrepreneurship and innovation." On April 18, 2006 President Bush signed an executive order creating the National Math Panel. As part of the ACI, the panel will bring together math, learning and education experts to determine how math teaching can be improved in the nation's schools. The panel has yet to be named but will study the issue over the next eight months and make recommendations that will completed by Jan 2007 and implemented in "Math Now" for elementary and middle school students. Math Now could be another opportunity for supplemental publishers to demonstrate how important their products are to increasing the basic skills capacity of students in the public education system. Charlene Gaynor, Chief Executive Officer of AEP, is being considered for a position on the panel, and would bring her expertise about supplemental materials into the dialogue. The initiative will be similar to Reading First, and is accompanied by a $250 million budget recommendation. In conjunction with the ACI, the Committee on Education and the Workforce will hold a hearing on "Building American Competitiveness: Examining the Scope and Success of Existing Federal Math and Science Programs," at 10:30 a.m. on May 3, 2006, in Room 2175 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact the office of Chairman Howard “Buck” McKeon at 202-225-4257 for more information and a list of witnesses.
Questions, ideas, or in need of more information? Please contact Stacey Pusey at 856-241-7772.
|
|
©
2008 The Association of Educational
Publishers
|
|
