Why Math and Science?

Without the requisite skills in math and science American children will deprive themselves of the economic well being enjoyed by children of other industrialized nations around the world.  In these countries students are greatly improving their performance in mathematics and science, thus improving their positions in the global economy.  American students, however, are finding their performance in these subject areas in a rapid state of decline.  Diverse students are at the lowest rung of this achievement ladder.

This data demonstrates why diverse students are grossly underrepresented in secondary mathematics and science classrooms; both in terms of their peer associations and the teachers of the math and science courses they take.  This is due in large part to the fact that diverse students whom have experienced constant mathematics and science failures are placed into slower-paced classes sometimes taught by teachers whom may carry global stereotypical notions of how diverse students will perform.