E.D. and N.S.F. Urged To Lead Science Reform

By Peter West

WASHINGTON--The Education Department and the National Science Foundation should be the lead agencies in a new federal effort to spur local innovation in mathematics- and science-education reform, a new report by the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government asserts.

Although both agencies are in need of "strengthening' and some reorganization to better meet the challenges of reform, they are the logical agencies to lead such an effort, the report says.

To assist the two agencies in coordinating their efforts, the report calls for the creation of a new N.S.F.-Education Department unit-a Joint Office for...