Wildlife Damage Management, Internet Center for
Date of this Version
2008
Abstract
There has been a large push to integrate more science and math into the classroom so that our children can compete in the world market, which is seeing an ever-increasing population of highly educated students from other countries. We read everyday in the newspapers the statistics of slipping academic achievement of American students compared to that of students around the world. So, the push for a more strenuous academic curriculum in American schools should be good for our students and for the nation. With a finite number of school hours, however, the advancement of 1 subject over another means a reduction in emphasis on some subjects. And what happens to those important subject areas, such as natural resources, that have never really been taught in the schools?
Comments
Published in Human-Wildlife Conflicts Volume 2, Number 1, Pages 15–16, Spring 2008. Published and copyright by Jack H. Berryman Institute. http://www.berrymaninstitute.org/journal/index.html