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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (832099)	1/24/2015 10:07:01 AM
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Raise your hand when you need to go to the bathroom, little one. "My high school physics was an extremely simple course with lab" Mine wasn't. It was a 2 hour class intended for students who were gonna be science majors in college. Back then, we needed to beat the Russians to the moon, so science was a national priority. In 1956 a group of university physics professors and high school physics teachers, led by MIT's Jerrold Zacharias and Francis Friedman, formed the Physical Science Study Committee (PSSC) to consider ways of reforming the teaching of introductory courses in physics. Educators had come to realize that textbooks in physics did little to stimulate students' interest in the subject, failed to teach them to think like physicists, and afforded few opportunities for them to approach problems in the way that a physicist should. In 1957, after the Soviet Union successfully orbited Sputnik , fear spread in the United States that American schools lagged dangerously behind in science. As one response to the perceived Soviet threat the U.S. government increased National Science Foundation funding in support of PSSC objectives. libraries.mit.edu

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