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Revitalizing Science Education |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENCE ESSAY |
| Author: John W. Moore |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1997 |
| Size: 2,221 Words, 16,408 Characters |
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The awarding of Nobel prizes in chemistry, medicine, and physics to American scientists as recently as last fall might be taken to indicate that all is well with science and scientific research in this country. And we might take it as a corollary that all must be well with science education, too. Why, then, has the past decade witnessed report after report urging reform and revitalization of science courses in our colleges and universities?vbcrlfProblems in science educationvbcrlf While many of our schools and colleges provide high-quality science education, a number of indicators show that our overall system is beset with problems and we could do much better. Test scores continue to demonstrate that our precollege students' science skills ar...
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...hnology to help students learn, and that will challenge them with more open-ended, inquiry-based problems and laboratory experiments. The result, we expect, will be much better prepared scientists, engineers, and other professionals. Even more important, the educated public will be much better able to understand and deal with political, economic, and social issues that are based on science. vbcrlf
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