Science Education

Seeing this article about people's science ignorance makes me want to reach out even more to students K-12. Pre-hurricane, our local chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology had some education programs going where some of us went to local high schools and talked about how great science is. We were in the process of selecting which schools we would visit and which members would visit them. There was discussion about how many members wanted to avoid schools in the "rough" neighborhoods. At our next meeting, I was going to plea the case that maybe it was the kids in the "rough" neighborhoods who needed us the most -- but then the hurricane happened, and I didn't get to say it.

We have an SCB meeting on the 9th. I'm going to broach the issue this time.