Recent education reform efforts advocate teaching the process of science (inquiry) in undergraduate lecture and laboratory classes. To meet this challenge, professional development for the graduate student instructors (teaching assistants, or TAs) often assigned to teach these classes is needed. This study explored the implementation of an…

Science teacher retention, attrition, and migration continue to perplex educational scholars, political entities, as well as the general public. This study utilized an interpretive methodological design to generate assertions regarding career choice made by highly qualified science teachers in the deep, rural South through analysis of documents,…

Describes the centennial feature of this journal in which each month the history of the journal unfolds with a description of how the particular topic has been espoused across the long period of the journal's history. Focuses on intellectual independence as a persistent theme in the literature of science education. (Contains 24 references.) (ASK)

Describes various philosophical positions on the teaching of the scientific method in the middle years of the 20th century by examining articles published in this journal. Concludes that there is still no agreement on a definition of the scientific method or the best way to teach it. (MM)

Describes and reviews the book "The Educational Concepts of Secondary School Science Teachers" by Paul Hurd. (MM)

Explores the topics and issues that filled this journal during its history. Focuses on the period in U.S. history of 1917 to 1950, a time of two world wars and the Great Depression, and examines how the political and social ideas of the times were reflected in the writings in this journal. (ASK)

Examines some of the issues of the crisis in education discussed in the School Science and Mathematics journal after World War II including teacher shortages, teacher pay, teacher preparation, school dropout among students, and the nature of science and mathematics education. (ASK)

Summarizes a debate over biology education that took place during a symposium sponsored by the School Science and Mathematics editors in 1908. The six published symposium contributions were meant to address such questions as whether zoology, botany, and human physiology should be studied in one biology course, and what the general purposes for…

Explores the topics and issues that filled this journal during its history. Discusses formally published articles on the prospect of adopting the metric system. (ASK)

Explores the roots of science teaching in the early 20th century by reviewing a group of articles from this journal's back issues. (ASK)