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9 The Next Generation
9 The Next Generation
Pages 199-224
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He is obsessed with the thought that a wrong move on his part during his children's early lives will wreak educational and social havoc during their adult years. The movie rings true because so many American parents share his parental paranoia.
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The very concept of requiring young children to meet specified standards assumes that they should develop in a predictable pattern. Yet research has shown that the early years of human development are highly individualized, with children exhibiting unique learning styles.
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* Abe Lincoin's Schoolroom Philip and Phyllis Morrison Back in Abe LincoIn's rural Indiana school, two things were clear: what the students brought in preparation and what the school's task had to be.
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Los Angeles streets and Florida beaches and fearful dinosaurs are all to be seen in colorful image. What is deeply missing is an inner sense of the worId's real constraints, of the difference between desire and performance.
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Phy is Morrison is a specialist in elementary science education. This article is adapted from a talk they gave at the National Sciences Resources Center' a joint science education effort of the National Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian Institution.
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A recent review of volunteer programs across the country by a National Research Council committee confirmed that many volunteers are doing outstanding work. Their ranks have grown beyond mothers at bake sales to include an increasing number of college students, business people and older Americans.
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This trend makes schools less bonded to their larger communities, a situation exacerbated by the increased number of mothers who have joined the labor force. In some school districts ~ have seen, administrators have become so defensive that they fear public inspection and the meddling of outsiders.
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Sewa] is president of the Center for Education Studies and editor of Social Studies Review.
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No competency is more fundamental in this emerging world than numerical reasoning, problem-solving and other basic mathematical skills. Informed citizens must be able to cope with economic indicators, census data, environmental risk factors and weather probabilities.
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By the end of this decade, the number of new doctoral graduates taking academic positions will be insufficient to replace retirees. Even this dismal state of affairs assumes a continued heavy reliance on foreign citizens and makes no allowance for a projected increase in demand for mathematicians from private companies and others.
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They're wrong. Creation science is a concept developed by Christian Fundamentalists that holds that the universe was created suddenly from nothing; that man and the different kinds of plants and animals were created separately; that there was a worldwide flood; and that the earth and living things are of recent origin, rather than millions of years old.
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Modern biology has broken the genetic code, opened up the fastmoving field of biotechnology and provided the knowledge for improved health care. Students need to be properly trained in science in order to improve their chances for gainful employment and enjoy a meaningful life in a technological world.
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Pope John Paul IT told the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in 1981: "The Bible speaks to us of the origins of the universe and its makeup, not in order to provide us with a scientific treatise, but in order to state the correct relationship of man with God and the universe. Sacred Scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by God." \ The Pope says that it is a blunder to mistake the Bible for an elementary book of astronomy, geology and biology.
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They decided to spend two years in business school or three years in law school, an investment likely to yield a healthy starting salary and desirable career track. But for other top graduates, those interested in science and engineering fields, the decision was more agonizing.
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Adding a couple of years to the time required of 13,000 American students adds up to "real money" that otherwise might be spent on financial aid for minority students, new research facilities or other pressing needs. Some have suggested that this disturbing trend is the result of the additional time needed to cover the explosion in scientific knowledge.
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September 9, 1990 Susan Coyote, a project officer with the National Research CounCi] 7 co-authored a study with Howard Tuckman and Yupin Bae on the increased time needed to complete doctorates in science .
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Several years ago a Macy Foundation study found that most young scientists of both sexes believe that domestic life is incompatible with productive science. A majority of the male scientists agreed with the view that motherhood marks the end of productive careers for their female colleagues, that "a scientific vocation, like religion, is a calling demanding superhuman {i.e., superman]
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. Women scientists generally were expected to take primary responsibility for their children, either providing care themselves or "making the arrangements." None of the husbands reported taking primary care of family needs.
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219 Martin Luther King, Ir., is being remembered this weekend for his historic contributions to civil rights. Another of his accomplishments, however, was that he was a black American who obtained a doctoral degree.
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220 HEADLINE NEWS, SCIENCE VIEWS Drawing by Jill Shargaa The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Lo every ten or fewer than half of the engineering doctor.
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Helping more black Americans obtain doctoral degrees also would promote a more secure balance of occupations within the black community itself. As the National Research Council reported in a recent study, a disproportionate number of black Americans currently work in jobs that are threatened by automation or are likely to decline in the future.
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For the most part, the United States is now run by lawyers and business people. Yet many issues, from national defense to the trade deficit, have a large technological component.
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Although the Roeblings were outstanding individuals, they were not unique. Many things happened to cause American engineers to become more narrow in their interests, but the most important was the decision a century ago by educators to make engineering an undergraduate field of study, consequently pushing aside liberal arts studies in the curriculum.
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224 HEADLINE NEWS' SCIENCE VIEWS other chaplain shares an island with a new group of engineers. But these will be Renaissance engineers, and the chaplain, thinking about being in their company, will be thanking the good Lord instead of complaining to Him.
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