Special Issue: Pre‐College Education
SEP 01, 1991
DOI: 10.1063/1.881270
There appears to be a great stir in the land concerning our science education system. Eminent committees have warned us that our nation is at risk. Congress has given extra money to the NSF specifically earmarked for precollege education. Many school districts and even states are experimenting with drastic revisions of how and when physics is taught in the upper grades. Physicists are taking part in some, but not all, of these projects.
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Clifford Swartz, State University of New York, Stony Brook.
© 1991 American Institute of Physics
