President Obama unveiled a $250 million public-private effort Wednesday, January 6, 2010, to improve science and mathematics instruction, aiming to help the nation compete in key fields with global economic rivals. With funding from high-tech businesses, universities and foundations, the initiative seeks to prepare more than 10,000 new math and science schoolteachers over five years and provide on-the-job training for an additional 100,000 science, technology, engineering and math teachers.
President Mel Schiavelli talks about the plan and the importance of STEM education in these two segments that air back-to-back on CBS-21.
