Carol Rinke is Associate Professor of science and mathematics education at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
A graduate of Stanford University and Teachers College, Columbia University, she worked as a math and science teacher in a variety of K-12 settings, including the New York City public schools. Concerned about the challenges she observed recruiting and retaining teachers, particularly in hard-to-staff math and science classrooms, she returned to graduate school at the University of Maryland College Park to pursue teacher preparation.
At Marist, Dr. Rinke teaches a STEM methods block for pre-service elementary teachers and is passionate about developing expertise in the new STEM literacies. Dr. Rinke has over 20 publications in the field of STEM teacher development, including a 2014 book with Rowman & Littlefield press entitled Why Half of Teachers Leave the Classroom: Understanding Recruitment and Retention in Today's Schools.
