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Media Availability With Science Board Chair To Discuss How To Improve Math & Science EducationScience board to release report with specific recommendationsThe National Science Board (NSB) releases a report, Preparing Our Children: Math and Science Education in the National Interest, on Wednesday, March 3, recommending ways to combat poor achievement by U.S. students in mathematics and science, as revealed in early 1998 by the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). NSB Chair Eamon Kelly will meet with the media on Wednesday, March 3, at 10:00 a.m. to discuss the specific recommendations. Copies of the executive summary will be distributed there, as will the full report. Both will be available on the web by Monday, March 8. Preparing Our Children makes four recommendations on how to improve the nation's standing in math and science achievement. The recommendations assign scientists, engineers and their institutions key responsibility to assist K-12 schools, students and teachers in this effort. Believing that education is simultaneously a local responsibility and a national priority, the NSB asserts that local efforts can converge on what matters most: rigorous content standards, high expectations for teaching and learning, rewards and incentives to cultivate wellprepared teachers, and reliable measures of accountability. The Board urges an interagency education research and evaluation effort to inform policymakers with practical, evidence-based data.
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