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Article: Science shy, science savvy, science smart. (includes related resource information) (Cover Story)
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- Phi Delta Kappan
- Article date:
- May 1, 1993
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If the large majority of tomorrow's citizens don;t achieve scientific literacy, society may be in peril, Ms. Fort warns, for ignorance in the postindustrial era can devastate the planet.
AMERICANS OF all ages and in all walks of life tend be scientifically and technologically illiterate. And what we do not know, we fear -- and approach with anxiety, if we approach it at all. Many readers of the Kappan march with this huge science-shy majority. In 1988 Jon Miller, in an editorial in the American Scientist, estimated that this nation's population is only 5% "scientifically literate." For the U.S. to remain strong and free, this percentage needs to change ...