N.S.T.A. and Monsanto Seek To Promote Reforms in Elementary Science Teaching

By Peter West

WASHINGTON-- In an ambitions effort to improve elementary science teaching, several hundred science educators met here this month to develop a "tool kit" of techniques to help them implement change at the district level.

The National Science Teachers Association and the Monsanto Fund co-sponsored the invitational conference, "A Strategy for Change," as a first step in a long-term effort to improve the training of elementary school teachers.

The aim of the conference was to provide teachers with an in-depth overview of science-education reform efforts as well as with strategies designed...