Chemistry Education, Kindergarten through College. Should We Be Changing the Direction of Where It Is Going?

Abstract

In the 1980s I assisted in directing a summer sixweek workshop at the University of Maryland for high school chemistry instructors on the teaching of chemistry. A young woman, who had recently graduated from the University, was the workshop secretary/ assistant. She had been selected for the job, not only because of her nice personality and skills, but because of her chemistry background. She had obtained the highest average in the introductory chemistry class of about 500 students at the University of Maryland.