The Materials of Physics Instruction

SEP 01, 1991

The mathematics and science communities are redefining what students should know and how they should learn it. Much new instructional material is available embodying the new reforms.

DOI: 10.1063/1.881273

Gerhard L. Salinger

Since the middle 1980s there has been great ferment in the US over the need to reform education in science, mathematics and technology. Reports such as “A Nation at Risk” and international comparisons of achievement in mathematics and science gave impetus to efforts to develop new materials and improve the education of both in‐service and pre‐service teachers so that they can better educate the students who will become our nation’s scientists, mathematicians, engineers, technicians, workers and voting citizens.

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More about the Authors

Gerhard L. Salinger. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.