
Teacher Sean Duffy (center), in his freshman honors science class at B.M.C Durfee High School on Sept. 23. A new program at UMass Dartmouth recruits and trains new teachers for math and science. After a summer crash course on teaching, they are thrown into a classroom that fall as they continue to take classes at UMass and receive mentoring from a local teacher.
(Suzanne Kreiter / Globe Staff)

