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Science courses nearly extinct in elementary grades, study finds

• gibsonf1 19y ago
  "-- 80 percent of teachers say they spend less than an hour each week teaching science. -- 16 percent of the elementary teachers say they teach no science at all. -- Ten times as many teachers say they feel unprepared to teach science than feel unprepared to teach math or reading. -- Fewer than half of Bay Area fifth-graders scored at grade level or above on last spring's California Standards Test in science."