Key Role of Scientists in Curriculum Change Never in our history has so much energy, talent, and money heen invested in improving the teaching of basic subjects in t,he high school curriculum. . . .The task is hardly begun, however; for wibh the exception of mathematics, the elementary-school curriculum has scarcely been touched. Many suhjects a t this level are in need of the same vigorous reshaping that the high school subjects have been receiving in recent years. As elementary and secondary curricula are revised, it will become increasingly apparent that much of what formerly was taught a t the undergraduate level will ralso need drastic revision. Ultimately the effects of the ripples begun a t the high school level will be felt from kindergarten through Ph.D. programs. I n a given subject such a stem-to-stern renovation program will take a t least a decade. And by then in the rapidly changing fields the task will need to be started again. Thus i t would appear that attention to curricular revision programs s t one or another level and in one or another field should occupy scientists, scholars, teachers, and foundations (public and private) into the foreseeable future. JACKSON, Ezeeulive Associate FREDERICKH.. CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEWYORK (From a conoluding summary in the December, 1901, issue of Science Educolion Nous, ~ublishedby the AAAS)
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