The Choice Channel

“I’m a high-school math teacher in Seattle. When I hear Mark Emmert, president of the University of Washington, say that this state is ‘at the bottom in the production of scientists and engineers,’ and warn that our graduates ‘will be washing the cars for the people who come here for the best jobs,’ I know what the problem is. It’s math. We are failing to educate our children in mathematics. I know how that came about, and what we can do about it.” (10/11/08)