Changes Needed in Science Education for Attracting More Students to STEM Careers

by: Bruce Alberts

Dr. Alberts’s editorials—Why I Became a Scientist; On Becoming a Scientist; Prioritizing Science Education; Reframing Science Standards; and An Education That Inspires—provide a “setting” for meeting Goal Four of the NSES, encouraging more students to increase their economic productivity through the use of the knowledge, understandings, and skills of the scientifically literate person. This chapter includes these editorials and an Introduction by Robert E. Yager.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 9/15/2012Stock # PB192X8_1

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