Taking Stock of U.S. Science Literacy Broadly
Thursday, March 24, 2016 - 14:41
in Biology & Nature
What does it mean to be science literate? How science literate is the American public? How do we stack up against other countries? What are the civic implications of a public with limited knowledge of science and how it works? How is science literacy measured? These and other questions are under the microscope of a 12-member National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel.