Roland Tharp

By 2010 it is expected that 40% of school age children will be of Latino, African American, Asian, or Native American descent, often sharing poverty, limited parent educational attainment, and limited English proficiency. Students in these groups typically have less access to science education and lower achievement in science. Fundamental to the problem is the limited knowledge base on how to teach science to diverse students and how to prepare the teachers that serve them. Using sociocul...