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Wefer, Stephen H.; Sheppard, Keith – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2008
The proliferation of bioinformatics in modern biology marks a modern revolution in science that promises to influence science education at all levels. This study analyzed secondary school science standards of 49 U.S. states (Iowa has no science framework) and the District of Columbia for content related to bioinformatics. The bioinformatics…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Science and Society, Biology, Scientific Literacy
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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