NSF STUDY FINDS MANY TEACHERS UNPREPARED FOR INSTRUCTING CHILDREN IN THE SCIENCES - NEW REPORT PROVIDES NSF DIRECTOR-DESIGNATE LANE,NEAL WITH DATA TO BOLSTER SUPPORT FOR EDUCATION INITIATIVES

Authors
SPECTOR B
Citation
B. Spector, NSF STUDY FINDS MANY TEACHERS UNPREPARED FOR INSTRUCTING CHILDREN IN THE SCIENCES - NEW REPORT PROVIDES NSF DIRECTOR-DESIGNATE LANE,NEAL WITH DATA TO BOLSTER SUPPORT FOR EDUCATION INITIATIVES, The Scientist, 7(18), 1993, pp. 1
Citations number
2
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
The Scientist → ACNP
ISSN journal
08903670
Volume
7
Issue
18
Year of publication
1993
Database
ISI
SICI code
0890-3670(1993)7:18<1:NSFMTU>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
A new National Science Foundation report finding, among other things, that United States elementary and secondary science and math teachers are poorly prepared to teach their subjects is being praised throughou t the scientific community for its comprehensiveness-but skeptics doub t whether NSF will use the statistics to rally the support they say is badly needed to bolster education initiatives.