The Executive Director of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) identifies three ways in which the U.S. can improve its science education. The first is to ensure that all science teachers have enough knowledge of the content they are teaching. Second, the science education community needs to improve the science education standards by identifying "anchors" that all states and districts will include in their curriculums. Finally, he suggests that more large-scale programs need to be developed to help all U.S. science teachers, rather than the select few who can participate in the currently available professional development opportunities. The NSTA online Science Objects and its Learning Center are examples of resources that can have a nationwide effect.