Tech training for teachers is in great demand. The Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department have been conducting a year-long investigation into the marketing of violent material to our youth. The draft report is being reviewed prior to public release. The Student Privacy Protection Act is a bill which has been introduced in Congress that would require parents to give informed consent before companies can collect information on their children in school. The National Commission on Math and Science Teaching Wants Your Input Share your knowledge to help restructure math and science teaching.
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Invite volunteer scientists and engineers to visit your classrooms, serve as mentors to students and your communities, and give demonstrations at special functions. Science Magazine Volume 286, Number 5447 Issue of 10 Dec 1999, pp. In the next 10 years it is estimated that 2 million new teachers will be needed. The Congressional General Accounting Office has issued a report indicating there is a dangerous lack of safeguards for protecting children from toxic substances in the classrooms. Young children are particularly vulnerable as they sit and play on schoolroom floors and are more subject to exposure through skin and by inhalation.