Book Reviews
Front-Page Science: Engaging Teens in Science Literacy
The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force issued new guidelines for mammograms in 2009. What does this mean for someone with a family history of breast cancer? Congress periodically votes on a piece of legislation called the Farm Bill. What does its current iteration mean for the safety of supermarket eggs? Understanding how the latest science affects real people—patients, consumers, voters, and taxpayers—is at the heart of science literacy.
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- Front-Page Science: Engaging Teens in Science Literacy(05/01/2013)
- STEM Student Research Handbook(04/01/2013)
- When Kids Can’t Read: What Teachers Can Do—A Guide for Teachers 6–12(04/01/2013)
- The Charter School Experiment: Expectations, Evidence, and Implications(03/01/2013)
- Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South(03/01/2013)
- College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be(03/01/2013)
- Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics(03/01/2013)
- Empowering Science and Mathematics Education in Urban Schools(02/01/2013)
- How to Succeed in College (While Really Trying): A Professor’s Inside Advice(02/01/2013)
- Learning the Hard Way: Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education(02/01/2013)
