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Report Calls for Improvement in K-8 Science Education
From:
The Washington Post
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September 22, 2006| Author:
Valerie Strauss - Washington Post Staff Writer
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A report released yesterday by a committee on science education
says K-8 classes are in "urgent need" of improvement, just as
schools must for the first time assess students on the subject under
the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
The report by the National Research Council, the main operating
agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy
of Engineering, said that the past 15 years of reform have produced
few positive results and that science education too ofte...
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