What can a professional society with 160,000 members do that can have a special, transformative effect on education in the United States? That is the question posed by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Board of Directors to the newly created Board-Presidential Task Force on Education. The Task Force has these charges:
1. review recommendations contained in national STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education reports released during the past five years;
2. identify specific actions that the Society could undertake in response to these recommendations;
3. create a priority list of actionable items where the Society can have a unique impact on STEM education.
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Citation
Kirchhoff, Mary M.; Zare, Richard N. J. Chem. Educ.2009, 86, 145.
Keywords
Chemical Education Research; First-Year Undergraduate / General; High School / Introductory Chemistry; Professional Development; Upper-Division Undergraduate
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