A Vision for What Science Education Should Be Like for the First 25 Years of a New Millennium

School Science and Mathematics

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 327-341

  Yager, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 0037995948     PISSN: 00366803     EISSN: 19498594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1949-8594.2000.tb17327.x     Document Type: Article

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