School Science and Mathematics articles from October 2000

School Science and Mathematics archives from October 2000

What Goes Around Comes Around?(Editorial)
October 1, 2000... The phrase you have just read as a title for this editorial is all too familiar. However, we have phrased it as a question, because its veracity as a prediction for science and mathematics in the next century remains to be seen. For this...

Science Education for the 21st Century.
October 1, 2000... The current science education reform movement in the United States has been underway since 1970. From the beginning, there has been broad agreement that the traditional goals of science education are obsolete and that new curricula need to be...

Mathematical Literacy and Abstraction in the 21st Century.
October 1, 2000... What should be the level of knowledge, understanding, and ability relative to mathematics for the college graduate in the 21st century? Although this question is important for the specialist in mathematics, this essay will consider the...

Emerging Certifications and Teacher Preparation.
October 1, 2000... Teacher education has always been exciting! Today it is more exciting than it has been in years, because teacher education, as a lifelong process, is finally receiving the attention and recognition it deserves. New standards have been developed...

Lessons From the Past Look to the Future.
October 1, 2000... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana Amid the concerns and dire predictions associated with the advent of Y2K, the news media also published lists of events considered to have made the...

Teaching for Understanding and Application of Science Knowledge.
October 1, 2000... We are now engaged in a period of significant reform in science education. I mark the beginnings of the reform with the most recent passage of Halley's Comet in 1986. That was the year James Rutherford initiated Project 2061 with the vision of...

A Vision of Learning to Teach for the 21st Century.
October 1, 2000... "Never tell a child anything you can get them to tell you." - Patricia Campbell When we think about how changes in the workplace and everyday life in the 20th century have exceeded anything we could have imagined at the turn of the...

A Vision for What Science Education Should Be Like for the First 25 Years of a New Millennium.
October 1, 2000... Science and mathematics education have been linked to technological advances, the economy, and the well being of the United States citizenry since the Sputnik Shock of 1957. In the 20 years following the Soviet exploits in space, $2 billion...