The crisis in high‐school physics education

As our society becomes more and more based on high technology, both for the goods and services we use and for the economic health of our country, it seems that fewer and fewer of our youth are learning the basic science they need to cope with the technology. Any technology that is sufficiently far beyond someone’s ken will appear indistinguishable from magic. The graph on page 29 shows that only just over 3% of our high‐school seniors take physics. Even “General Science” does not draw a large audience.

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