contributors
“Public and private stakeholders must elevate
education and talent development as our
highest state priority and identify key areas
that will help strengthen our state and local
systems.”
John Fitzpatrick is the Executive Director of
Educate Texas.
“There is a significant population of talented
undergraduate STEM majors who do not yet know
that they want to become teachers.”
Kimberly Hughes is the Director of UTeach,
a program started on the University of Texas at
Austin campus in 1997. It has since expanded
to eight universities in Texas and 39 university
campuses in the U.S.
“Yes, the state’s economy is healthy, but we
Texans can’t ignore that we are participating
in a global economy driven by science,
technology, engineering and mathematics
(STEM).”
James Thompson is the CEO and president of
The InSource Group with offices in Dallas,
Fort Worth and Houston.