Educating Americans for the 21st Century: How to Count to 100,000 STEM Teachers in 10 Years

Smithsonian Magazine interviewed Talia Milgrom-Elcott, 100Kin10’s Executive Director, on the history, objectives, and approaches of the 100Kin10 network.

“Truly, almost any of us—and right now it is at the organization level, but we hope that as we grow this, at some point it can be at the individual level as well—can look at what we do well, find a bridge between what we do and this need, and do something that is critical to hitting the goal,” says Milgrom-Elcott.

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