This week, as New Jersey celebrates its STEM Week, Woodrow Wilson is proud of the contributions that its WW New Jersey Teaching Fellows are making in the state’s high-need math and science classrooms. Over at Education World, Woodrow Wilson’s Patrick Riccards why this work is so important:

New Jersey will need to fill 269,000 STEM jobs by 2018. Those jobs will only be filled by successful, STEM-literate, career-ready individuals if we have a strong cadre of STEM educators working in New Jersey’s high schools. And those jobs are only filled when we recognize that many of those successful potential employees are attending high-need schools in the state, and can significantly benefit from all that excellent STEM teachers bring.

You can read the full post here.

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