"We don't have a generally educated science public," Dr. Havasy said, planning to collaborate on programming with the Malverne, Lynbrook and Rockville Centre school districts.
As the US pays dearly to educate science and technology graduates, universities continue to over-produce them for jobs these industries can't create.
Those Twitter comments, by the way, came from bright, educated, science journalists who, like me and the immense global community that was joined together in this common intense experience, felt fear in precisely the same way.
Both are highly educated, science-driven and professional.
Working in a museum satisfied my inner science geek, and educating about science keeps me learning about new breakthroughs in scientific discoveries.
Harvard's curricular renewal recommendations have their roots in BIO2010 but go beyond educating the science major to include improving science education for all undergraduates.
A person educated in science can understand science; a scientifically literate person can *do* science".
"To us who are educated in science, whenever we see science presented inaccurately, it's like fingernails on the blackboard," the AMC show's science advisor Dr. Donna Nelson, a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Oklahoma, tells the American Chemical Society's Bytesize Science series in the video above.
That many of those surveyed were also at least temporarily persuaded by the Unlocking the Mystery of Life DVD resource while also holding "fuzzy" notions about the nature of science, and some even rejecting evolution, has important implications for science education at all levels, given that the participants were educated in science to degree level.
We need citizens who are thoroughly educated in science.
