Calif. Mulls Limiting Hands-On Science Lessons
If an advisory board in California has its way, students there will have fewer opportunities to do hands-on science activities.
The state board of education is scheduled to vote next month on a new set of criteria for K-8 textbooks that would cap such exploratory lessons at 25 percent. The state curriculum commission recommended the policy to the board last month.
Additional experiments would be available within the texts, but they would be clearly marked as optional, according to Thomas Adams, the executive director...
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