I agree. Very involved topic. Unfortunately, the problem is baked into the cake, self-replicating. 1) The preparation of many HS science teachers (sometimes) g

I agree. Very involved topic. Unfortunately, the problem is baked into the cake, self-replicating. 1) The preparation of many HS science teachers (sometimes) gives them an adequate grasp of what they're teaching, but no history background. Fixable, but not likely to happen, unless the school arms them with good media presentations. 2) On the college level, same problem: much better grasp of fundamentals but, again, no tradition to teach or requirement to mention -any- history. (And college profs have more demands on their -expensive- time.) I had exactly -one- prof who did some history (optics). At best they typically lectured, and -maybe- demonstrated, several historical finds. But the cultural context (which Thony is -really- good at) is NEVER a part. So basically, educators who DO history are rare, and those who do are probably self-motivated. The university I attended had -one- part-time 'historian of science' (the optics guy), and several of his collegues bitched that he should been hired by the history department.