Posted on March 6, 2008 by Andrew Kern
For a science curriculum to be ultimately effective it must meet the following criteria:
It must recognize the purpose of the natural sciences.
It must recognize the nature of the natural sciences.
It must recognize and accept the limits of the natural sciences.
It must rightly align the natural sciences with the rest of the curriculum: first, with the [...]
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Posted on March 6, 2008 by Andrew Kern
“During the past five years we’ve heard from parents again and again how difficult it has been to get children who have read nothing but pap to focus when the books assigned in class get more complicated.
You wouldn’t belive someone who said it didn’t matter what your child ate as long as they ate something, [...]
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