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Article: Transforming Middle School Science Education.(Review) (book review)
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- September 22, 2000
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Transforming Middle School Science Education. Paul de Hart Hurd. New York: Teachers College. 2000. $19.95. ISBN: 0-8077-3922-7.
Paul de Hart Hurd has been in the forefront of science education since the post-Sputnik days when the biology curriculum was being revised in Boulder, Colorado. Hurd is recognized as an icon in his field; when he speaks, teachers listen. This 80-page monograph, with a foreword by James J. Gallagher, is another addition to the Ways of Knowing in Science series, edited by Richard Duschl. Transforming Middle School Science Education is Hurd's second contribution to the series; his first contribution was Inventing Science Education for the ...