'No Child Left Behind' May Rescue Science Ed

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Many educators have apoplexy over the "No Child Left Behind" legislation, but the science community is grabbing onto it like a life preserver hoping that science will finally be placed back into elementary schools and high school teachers can once again teach biology, chemistry and physics with labs and equipment updated for the first time since Lassie ruled the airwaves.

President Bush's initiative requires, among other things, that by 2007 students be tested in science and schools held accountable for adequate yearly performance progress. Even those educators who are tired of testing agree that exams are the stick needed to bring science back into the curriculum. Ask educators candidly and they will admit that science has been on the back burner for decades because most states now only require proficiency testing in reading and math.

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'No Child Left Behind' May Rescue Science Ed

It's about time we paid attention to science before the United States is outsourced, brain-drained and left technologically anemic by the rest of the world. If it takes No Child Left Behind to do it, so be it.

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