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Report Says States Aim Low in Science Classes
Nearly half the states are doing a poor job of setting high academic standards for science in public schools, according to a new report that examined science in anticipation of 2007, when states will be required to administer tests in the subject under President Bush’s signature education law.
The report, released Wednesday by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, suggests that the focus on reading and math as required subjects for testing under the federal law, No Child Left Behind, has turned attention away from science, contributing to a failure of American children to stay competitive in science with their counterparts abroad.
The report also appears to support concerns raised by a growing number of university officials and corporate executives, who say that the failure to produce students well-prepared in science is undermining the country’s production of scientists and engineers and putting the nation’s economic future in jeopardy.
New from Fordham: The State of State Science Standards 2005 http://www.fordhaminstitute.org/institute/global/log.cfm?main=98
Montana http://www.edexcellence.net/doc/05sci_MT.pdf.pdf
Wyoming http://www.edexcellence.net/doc/05sci_WY.pdf.pdf
Idaho http://www.edexcellence.net/doc/05sci_ID.pdf.pdf
Washington http://www.edexcellence.net/doc/05sci_WA.pdf.pdf
Utah http://www.edexcellence.net/doc/05sci_UT.pdf.pdf
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
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