United States Astronomy Education: Past, Present, and Future
Abstract
The entire college-educated population of colonial and 18th and 19th-century America was reasonably well versed in principles of elementary astronomy. But astronomy virtually disappeared from secondary schools, teacher-training institutions, and liberal-degree colleges about 1900. Before the Sputnik-hastened curriculum reforms, few students of this century had formal introduction to more than a few scattered astronomical facts and concepts.
Date
01/01/1977
Citation
Bishop, J. E. (1977). United States astronomy education: Past, present, and future. Science Education, 61(3), 295–305. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.3730610305
