INFORMATION LITERACY: SCIENCE LITERACY: Science Literacy: U.S. College Courses Really Count
David P. Dillard
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INFORMATION LITERACY:
SCIENCE LITERACY:
Science Literacy: U.S. College Courses Really Count
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Science Literacy: U.S. College Courses Really Count
By Janet Raloff
March 13th, 2010; Vol.177 #6 (p. 13)
Science News
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/56517/
title/Science_literacy_U.S._college_courses_really_count
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SAN DIEGO Over the past two decades, science literacy in the United
States an estimate of the share of adults who can follow complex science
issues and maybe even render an informed opinion on them has nearly
tripled. But and its a big but -- the proportion of people who fall into
this category remains small. Just 28 percent.
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The U.S. figure is slightly higher than that for Denmark, Finland, Norway
and the Netherlands. And its double the 2005 rate in the United Kingdom
(and the collective rate for the European Union).
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Americas improving science and tech literacy does not appear to reflect
better K-12 science education, Miller says, since scores on tests
assessing kids science literacy has remained fairly stable and not that
high. Indeed, he notes, U.S. high school students are below average and
below most European countries on virtually every international achievement
test administered throughout the past 30 years. One in four American
students dont even complete high school, and among those who do, he
contends, many are poorly educated. Against this background, he says, one
is tempted to ask how science literacy among U.S. adults could have risen
to become second only to the Swedes.
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The likely answer, he contends, traces to the U.S. undergraduate
curriculum.
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The United States is the only country in the world, right now, that
requires all of its university students take a year of general education,
Miller says. Which means they all have a year of science, a year of social
science, and a year of humanities. Its something he contends European and
other nations would do well to match.
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