NT earns millions for education
Elizabeth Knighten
Issue date: 3/5/08 Section: NEWS
NT received a life sized check for $2.4 million on Friday morning for the new Teach North Texas program.
NT administration and guests flooded the Diamond Eagle Suite of the University Union as President Gretchen Bataille opened a press conference for Teach North Texas, a program that is an extension of UTeach that was started at the University of Texas in Austin.
Members of Greater Texas Foundation and the ExxonMobil Foundation presented Bataille with the check. Audience members included NT administration, U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess and the Denton Mayor Perry McNeill.
The UTeach program was started to help students in the fields of math, science and computer science and helps them use that knowledge as future educators.
"The task I was given today was to talk about three things," said Wynn Rosser of the Greater Texas Foundation. "Why math and science education is an issue for the Greater Texas Foundation, why UTeach is one of the strategies we were interested in, and why the University of North Texas from our perspective at the Greater Texas Foundation,"
Rosser said it's common knowledge now that the U.S. needs to do something about its math and science education.
"We've done extensive research and listen to experts and chose math and science as the first large scale focus initiative of our foundation," Rosser said.
He pointed out from his research that students who had good communication with their teachers and had engaging educators, did better on average than those who did not.
"The more the teacher knows about the topic they're teaching, the better their students will do," he said.
He said that there are four UTeach sites in the state of Texas and 12 around the country.
The Greater Texas Foundation, he said, chose NT because of its exceptional leadership, its commitment to streamline its math and science teacher certification, its strong partnership with Fort Worth ISD and its commitment to honor students who choose to teach.
NT administration and guests flooded the Diamond Eagle Suite of the University Union as President Gretchen Bataille opened a press conference for Teach North Texas, a program that is an extension of UTeach that was started at the University of Texas in Austin.
Members of Greater Texas Foundation and the ExxonMobil Foundation presented Bataille with the check. Audience members included NT administration, U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess and the Denton Mayor Perry McNeill.
The UTeach program was started to help students in the fields of math, science and computer science and helps them use that knowledge as future educators.
"The task I was given today was to talk about three things," said Wynn Rosser of the Greater Texas Foundation. "Why math and science education is an issue for the Greater Texas Foundation, why UTeach is one of the strategies we were interested in, and why the University of North Texas from our perspective at the Greater Texas Foundation,"
Rosser said it's common knowledge now that the U.S. needs to do something about its math and science education.
"We've done extensive research and listen to experts and chose math and science as the first large scale focus initiative of our foundation," Rosser said.
He pointed out from his research that students who had good communication with their teachers and had engaging educators, did better on average than those who did not.
"The more the teacher knows about the topic they're teaching, the better their students will do," he said.
He said that there are four UTeach sites in the state of Texas and 12 around the country.
The Greater Texas Foundation, he said, chose NT because of its exceptional leadership, its commitment to streamline its math and science teacher certification, its strong partnership with Fort Worth ISD and its commitment to honor students who choose to teach.
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