OCEAN EDUCATION | Linking Public Policy Support for Ocean Science to Pre-College Education

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Admiral James D. Watkins is retired from the U.S. Navy where he served as Chief of Naval Operations, Chairman of the Presidential Commission on AIDS, and Secretaryof Energy. He is currently the President of both the Joint Oceanographic Institutions and The Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education.

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You may recall some of the chilling statements made in the powerful A Nation at Risk report in 1983, a report that triggered recent attempts at educational reform in the United States. In that report, one researcher concluded, after completing a national survey on student achievement within the explosive scientific world we live that, "We are raising a new generation of Americans that is scientifically and technologically illiterate." Similarly, a former Director of the National Science Foundation was quoted as warning of "a growing chasm between a small scientific and technological elite and a citizenry ill informed, indeed uninformed, on issues with a science component." Alas, surveys conducted recently could justify redating this report as being written in 1995.

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Watkins, J.D. 1995. Linking public policy support for ocean science to pre-college education. Oceanography 8(3):103–105, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.1995.09.

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