This newsletter briefly describes present activities, projects, and publications in the areas of science education, mathematics education, and general education in Great Britain. Short articles on activities in Europe, Vancouver (Canada) and Tokyo are included along with descriptions of overseas activities in Germany, Nigeria and Singapore.…

Discusses the important challenges facing high school chemistry teachers in the 1980s. Topics include increasing the enrollment of non-science-oriented students in high school chemistry courses and teaching the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Chemistry (IAC) program to college-bound general students. (BT)

The appreciable impact of the National Science Foundation on the education of scientists in the United States since the agency's founding was discussed. One of the major new challenges considered was the need for scientists and engineers to learn more about our society's economics, politics, and values. (Editor/RK)

Science influences every aspect of contemporary life, yet the United States has been described as a nation of scientific illiterates. The appraisal of leaders in government, education, and the private sector is that the welfare of the nation and the individual will be improved when all citizens have sufficient understanding of science to make…

The syllabus prepared by the Scottish Working Party on Secondary School Science for the first two years of secondary education, when all pupils study science, is given in detail in the Working Party's report. The broad objectives for science components of courses designed for students in the third and fourth years (approximately grades 10 and 11)…

This science program, offered to all undergraduate students at the University of Iowa as an alternative to the traditional science core courses, is a three-course sequence designed primarily for elementary and special education majors. The program utilizes a student-structured laboratory setting with its main goal the development of a science…

A group of representatives of colleges in western Massachusetts is developing curricula related to nuclear issues. Teaching such issues provides content for promoting liberal arts goals incorporating perspectives of science, engineering and social/political science, and provides opportunities to enlarge students' understanding of the whole domain…

This booklet assembles information on 28 programs which have been used effectively by discussion groups throughout the country and are available to others in printed or audiovisual form. Its purposes are to alert those planning community adult education programs to a variety of approaches and materials and to serve as a source of information for…