CONFERENCE ON NATION-WIDE PROBLEMS OF SCIENCE TEACHING IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS AT THE invitation of Dr. James B. Canant, then president of Harvard University, 22 science educators from various parts of the United States conferred on the Harvard campus from July 15 to August 12. The Conference considered various aspects of science education, including chemical education, in the secondary schools. The Conference was financed by the Carnegie Corporation of New Yark, New York. ~leve' consultants-were brought before the Conference for their well-informed advice. They included: Professor Stewart S. Cairns, Chairman, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois. Professor Philippe LeCorbeiller, Physics Department, Harvard University. Professor I. Bernard Cohen, History of Science, Harvard University. Professor Robert Ulich. Graduate School of Education. Harvard University. Dr. S. Donald Melville, Educational Testing Service. Dr. Henry Dyer, College Entrance Examination Board. Professor George R. Harrison, Dean of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technolaw.
Professor Nathaniel Frank, Chairman, Physics Department Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Raymond Mayhew, National Science Foundation. Dr. Lester Nelson, formerly Chairman, Ford Foundation Committee on Fellowship Awards to Secondary School Teachers. Dr. Raymond C. Maul, Research Division, National Education Association, The findings of the Conference deal with the problems that confront science education in the secondary schools. Topics considered by the Conference and included in its documented study are: The nature of the problem of neience education. Teacher supply and demand. Preparation of science teachers. Science teaching as work and career. The findings in some instances are projected into the future by extrapolation as far as 1966. The Conference report, a 48-page booklet entitled "Critical Years Ahead in Science Teaching" will be sent without charge to all persons who request copies. State the number of copies desired and send a gummed, self-addressed label to Elhert C. Weaver, Secretary, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts.
