Science and Math

[nsa]

Teachers Concerned for Science Education (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=718&e=9&u=/ap/20040704/ap_on_re_us/teachers_science)Many educators and employers liken the state of science education to a chemistry project gone awry: A bad mix of factors has come together and it spells trouble.
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It begins when young students skip challenging science courses and later produces an understaffed or ill-trained corps of science instructors.

[djwalker]

Teachers Concerned for Science Education (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=718&e=9&u=/ap/20040704/ap_on_re_us/teachers_science)
Here's the money quote from that article:

"By law, making students better at reading and math is the nation's priority."

Which means administrators want to know why you're wasting your time doing hands-on, experiment based, real science education; clearly you could be killing two birds with one stone by having the kids read out of a science textbook and taking quizzes and tests on the material instead. Then they learn science and reading.

I'm not making this up.