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| This is a newsletter of the METS Coalition, a group of business education and community leaders,working together to improve student performance in math, engineering, technology and science.
Click here to find out more about the METS Coalition.
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Heather Pearce
Fourth Grade Teacher
High Pointe Elementary, Nixa, Mo.
|  | "I think (the new technology purchased through the METS grants) definitely enhances their academic achievement because they're active learners. It takes away from the paper and pencil kind of drill and practice that you and I had grown up with and it takes it to more of their learning style, because kids today come media-savvy." |
METS technology grants making a difference in Missouri classrooms
 | Missouri teachers who received METS technology grants for their classrooms say the investment is already paying off in the form of more connected, engaged, higher-performing students. The grants were part of the education initiative proposed last year by Gov. Blunt and advocated by |
the METS Coalition to improve Missouri student's performance in math, engineering technology and science. Here, Gov. Blunt watches a student from Maplewood Richmond Heights Middle School demonstrate what he has learned using equipment from the grant his school received.
Blunt asks legislature for $6.85 million for METS technology and curriculum grants
 | Gov. Matt Blunt is asking state lawmakers to approve a budget increase for METS, bringing new technology to 400 Missouri classrooms. It would also bolster after school programs, teacher training and advanced placement tests. |
Education leaders working to streamline, enhance math curriculum
 | A group of Missouri educators, including members of the Missouri METS Coalition, are creating a new comprehensive set of core concepts, learning goals and performance expectations for Missouri math students in grades k-12. |
MasterCard education summit brings top educators to Missouri
 | Having students skilled in math is central to Missouri's future. With that in mind, MasterCard recently brought some of the world's top math educators to St. Louis to help Missouri better its efforts at teaching the subject. |
METS programs can help Missouri overcome math and science shortfalls, report states
 | A continued emphasis on METS is one host of ideas proposed in a recent report by the Missouri P-20 Council to help Missouri bridge a foreseen shortfall of well-educated math and science graduates. |
Blunt appoints Rod Nunn to lead workforce education efforts
 | As Gov. Matt Blunt's Director of Education and Workforce Innovation, Rod Nunn is spearhead the governor's efforts to ensure Missouri schools are successfully training students for the workforce. |
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