The Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction’s Earth and Space Science Curriculum Promotional Program and the Status of Earth and Space Science Education in the Public Secondary Schools of Pennsylvania

Abstract

The study sought: (1) to determine the status of earth and space science education in public secondary schools in Pennsylvania in the school year 1963-64; (2) to show a relation, if any, between the state's earth and space science curriculum promotional program and the appearance of earth-space courses in the public secondary schools of the Commonwealth; (3) to determine school district relation to and appraisal of certain aspects of the state's earth and space science curriculum promotional program; and, (4) to identify the factors or elements influential in affecting school district decisions related to the acceptance or non-acceptance of an earth-space offering.