USATODAY.com - Science teaching gets weak diversity grade: "A survey of 100 top technology executives gives the nation's public schools a C-minus for efforts to encourage girls and minorities to pursue science and technology careers.
But the same survey finds that only 37% of these executives say their companies or employees support science education programs that help create 'the next generation of inventors, innovators and discoverers.'
The survey, released Tuesday, is based on a telephone poll of 100 chief executives, chief financial officers and other leaders in fast-growing science and technology companies in North America.
It finds that 82% believe elementary school students learn science through hands-on, inquiry-based methods rather than through textbooks and memorization.
The poll was sponsored by Bayer Corp. as part of its Making Science Make Sense program."
