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Starting a science education
- 07-28-2010
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Opinion by William Banko, Michael E. Jabot, Patricia B. Molloy, Arnold Serotsky, & Bruce Tulloch/Education Week
Is it possible that our country has been teaching science backwards? Scores from the 2006 Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, on which the United States ranked 25th in math and 21st in science out of 30 developed nations, certainly seem to indicate that our overall approach is not working. Now we have objective evidence of what does work in the learning and teaching process, which opens a new approach that can be applied to science instruction. Research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, education, and machine learning is demonstrating that young children have the capacity to learn more than anyone previously imagined. (more...)
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