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The STEM solution: new initiative provides high-school teaching fellowships to graduates of science, technology, engineering and math.(VIEWPOINT)

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From: Indiana Business Magazine
Date: 20080201
Author:Pitts, Beverley

"EDUCATION IS NOT THE filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

This observation by the poet William Butler Yeats has never been more relevant to us here in Indiana. As educators and business and community leaders struggle to find ways to reverse unacceptable dropout rates and produce well-prepared high school graduates, it is clear that we need new ways of teaching and new school structures that will provide the necessary spark for our students' imaginations.

We are able, certainly, to provide young people with compelling evidence for the importance of earning a ...

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