Crisis in Science and Math Education: Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, November 9, 1989, Volumen4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989 - 134 páginas |
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Página 85 - It is that the basic ideas that lie at the heart of all science and mathematics and the basic themes that give form to life and literature are as simple as they are powerful. To be in command of these basic ideas, to use them effectively, requires a continual deepening of one's understanding of them that comes from learning to use them in progressively more complex forms.
Página 10 - we must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
Página 132 - The new jobs in service industries will demand much higher skill levels than the jobs of today. Very few new jobs will be created for those who cannot read, follow directions, and use mathematics. Ironically, the demographic trends in the workforce, coupled with the higher skill requirements of the economy, will lead to both higher and lower unemployment: more joblessness among the least-skilled and less among the most educationally advantaged.
Página 85 - ... them in progressively more complex forms. It is only when such basic ideas are put in formalized terms as equations or elaborated verbal concepts that they are out of reach of the young child, if he has not first understood them intuitively and had a chance to try them out on his own.
Página 85 - The early teaching of science, mathematics, social studies, and literature should be designed to teach these subjects with scrupulous intellectual honesty, but with an emphasis upon the intuitive grasp of ideas and upon the use of these basic ideas. A curriculum as it develops should revisit these basic ideas repeatedly, building upon them until the student has grasped the full formal apparatus that goes with them.
Página 28 - I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
Página 95 - Shirley M. Malcom - Head, Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs, American Association for the Advancement of Science Mario J.
Página 113 - Goals; An Assessment of Programs That Facilitate Increased Access and Achievement of Females and Minorities in K-12 Mathematics and Science Education, AAAS 84-14 (Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Office of Opportunities in Science, December 1984).
Página 96 - Head of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a new position to which she was named in July 1989.
Página 108 - pipeline' of young people that feeds the S&E workforce may not be adequate In either numbers or quality to provide the workers that will be needed during the next decade and beyond. Between 1980 and 2000, the number of 18-24 year olds will decline by 19 percent while the overall population will Increase by 18 percent. Even if the historic average holds, and five percent of 18-24 year olds obtain S&E degrees, the resulting shortfall in the S&E workforce could reach into the hundreds of thousands....