By Liz Bowie, The Baltimore Sun
9:24 p.m. EST, November 10, 2010
Second-year chemistry teacher Mark Wilcox has never had a lot of colleagues at Patterson High School who could help him think up lesson plans or new approaches to a topic.
But he has imagined the benefits of reaching across the city and state to those who might have created a better way to teach a chemistry concept.
State education officials and business leaders put Wilcox and 29 other teachers in a room and asked them to dream up an online network that would help them be better teachers. The result will be STEMnet Teachers Hub, an initiative announced Wednesday, the same day a major new report revealed that the U.S. ranks 31st out of 56 countries in the percentage of high school graduates who have advanced math skills.
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