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Article: Science Education It Isn't Rocket Science.
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- Phi Delta Kappan
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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Mr. Weld describes an approach to science education that meets the demands of a technological and pluralistic society.
WHAT IF English classes were found to dramatically favor red-haired students of diminutive stature? For whatever reason, their test scores in English on national exams are inordinately high. They make up the bulk of enrollees in Advanced Placement English classes. Departments of English in colleges are filled with short redheads. And most journalists and writers are short redheads as well.
The rest of us might shrug and wonder over the curious equation: red hair equals good grammar. Carrot-topped infants would be cooed over as future ...