Math & Science Education
Today we host a roundtable discussion on the importance of math and science education, education standards for those disciplines and the efforts underway to encourage greater minority participation and achievement in those fields. Guests: Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, President of The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Mary Sandy, Director of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium which administers the Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Scholars (VASTS) program, and Jim Batterson, who retired from NASA in April of last year and has been appointed Senior Advisor to the Commonwealth on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Initiatives.

http://www.vasts.spacegrant.org/
http://www.msinnovation.info/index.html
http://www.achieve.org/
Dr. Hrabowski will be speaking at the October 28th Community Matters Luncheon

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