A Brief History of the Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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In the early days of the existence of the Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers, those who met to form the section of biology came together, not primarily because they knew what they wanted to do, but because they felt that they Should be doing something that they we're not doing. An indefinite reason for organization, we may say, but 'very real nevertheless, and a reason more or less commonly existent with teachers of other high school sciences. In the evolution of the high school curr1cu lum, an evolution which like others in nature occurs somewhat blindly, sciences gained a place in the program. Science had grown so rapidly, its wonders and its cornmonplaces were now organized into fairly definite, though constantly shifting systems, its laboratory and its method had emphasized a new way of se curing evidence and establishing truth - hence the conclusion that science must. Appear in secondary school, programs. Pre eminently biology, by means of which we study evolution; which deals with life; with the individual's and the world's food prob lems; with the struggle to live and to prevent oneself from being the food of other things that are also struggling to live; it must be important for secondary education.

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