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Dallas, TX - National teacher training organization Laying the Foundation (LTF) is launching its first Teacher of the Year and Trainer of the Year awa...

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Laying the Foundation (LTF), a nonprofit organization that provides content-focused teacher training and classroom resources, announced the keynote sp...

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LEXINGTON, KY (wuky) - With the students in the U.S. falling behind in math and science, teachers are hoping to learn new ways to rekindle interest in...

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The Bryan school district has taken a first step to bring its pre-AP classes up to the standards that school board members thought were already in pla...

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Denise Rambo, an 8th-grade reading and English teacher at Trigg County Middle School, sees herself as a “brain coach.” Last summer she attended a Layi...

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For Immediate Release April 4, 2011   Laying the Foundation, Inc. Announces David Saba as Chief Executive Officer Dallas, Texas — The Board ...

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For Immediate Release December 21, 2010     Dallas-Based Education Nonprofit’s CEO Tapped as New Mexico’s New Commissioner of Education ...

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Laying the Foundation, Inc. is pleased to announce their Science Content Editor, Paul Hightower, has published The Father of Geometry: Euclid and His ...

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Texas Instruments Foundation today will announce grants of $3 million to train existing middle and junior high school teachers in advanced math and science and to increase the number of such teachers who graduate from local universities.

"This investment is consistent with the foundation's focus on science, technology, engineering and math [STEM] education and its mission to substantially strengthen the number of high school graduates who are capable of advanced math and science by focusing on teachers – the most critical link in the learning chain," said Sam Self, Texas Instruments Foundation chairman.

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The United States is hungry for talent in technological fields but must look abroad for much of it – like about half of the engineers we need.

Some people call it "intellectual capital." Sadly, the nation's alarming and growing deficit won't be filled by the American education system unless current trends are reversed.

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