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Today’s Students Aren’t Learning How Science Happens. That’s a Problem in a Pandemic.

March 12, 2021

Via: Ed Surge

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused all of us to make difficult decisions about behaviors we used to take for granted. Those decisions weigh the risk of viral spread with our need for human contact. To make these decisions, we need information and a way to distinguish credible sources from the rest—and that starts with a solid understanding of basic science.

Too often, though, this understanding we’re using to make decisions is obtained solely from our experiences in school science settings.

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