Rice helps high school teachers prepare for new law

Rice helps high school teachers prepare for new law
One-day course will ready teachers for new ‘4X4’ graduation requirements

BY JADE BOYD
Rice News Staff

New provisions in the Texas Education Code require high school students — beginning with this year’s freshman class — to earn four credits in math and science in order to graduate.

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Rice University’s Glasscock School of Continuing Studies will help prepare 150 Houston-area high school science teachers, school administrators and counselors about ways to fulfill the new law’s requirements in a one-day symposium this weekend titled “4×4 Science Symposium: Exploring Fourth-Year Options.”

“Response to the 4×4 Symposium has been overwhelming,” said Program Director Jennifer Gigliotti-Labay. “The 4×4 legislation provides an exciting opportunity for schools to add a fourth science course to their offerings, and this event will educate school personnel on the various elective options.”

Participants in the course will learn which courses and electives qualify under the new law, and they’ll be able to attend small breakout sessions for one-on-one tips from science teachers and Rice professors who’ve successfully taught the courses.

This symposium is sponsored in part by the Baker Hughes Foundation.

For more information about the 4X4 symposium or the Glasscock school, visit http://www.gscs.rice.edu/scs/4x4_Science_Symposium.asp?SnID=2.