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High School Biology Today: What the Committee of Ten Actually Said
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Sheppard, Keith; Robbins, Dennis M. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2007
This essay describes how in the 1890s the Committee of Ten arrived at their recommendations about the organization of the high school biological sciences and seeks to correct the frequently held, but erroneous view that the Committee of Ten was the initiator of the Biology-Chemistry-Physics order of teaching sciences prevalent in high schools…
Descriptors: Biology, Secondary School Curriculum, Intellectual History, Science Education History