| Saturday, January 15, 2000 - 03:20 pm Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 10:42:46 -0500 (EST) From: AIP listserver <fyi@aip.org> To: fyi-mailing@aip.org Subject: FYI #3 - Interview with Rep. Rush Holt FYI The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Science Policy News Number 3: January 10, 2000 Rep. Rush Holt on Science Policy Rep. Rush Holt was a guest on National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation: Science Friday" (www.sciencefriday.com) late last year. Holt, a freshman Democrat, represents New Jersey's 12th District. Before coming to Congress, he was the Assistant Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Holt offered some interesting observations about his first year in Congress that are useful as we start the next budget cycle. Selections from his interview with Ira Flatow follow. The entire interview can be heard at the Science Friday site. [snip] CONGRESSIONAL ACTION ON SCIENCE AND MATH EDUCATION: "I am particularly pleased that we able to include some money, a small increase, for training of teachers who will be teaching science and math. This would include elementary school teachers; we make enormous demands of elementary school teachers and we need to help them in the teaching of science and math. I think that is particularly important." [Holt then discussed the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.] "We have been able to emphasize science in several parts of it. In seeing that states not only have standards for science, but they actually test in the area of science as they do in reading and math, to find out if students are meeting those standards. Let me come back to the training. I think that it is particularly important that we provide funding for that. Because in education we devote a small fraction of a percent to training of teachers. Whereas in most industries, companies will spend five, ten, even twenty percent, training their workers in their areas, ongoing training. So we should be doing that in our education as well." [snip] ############### Richard M. Jones Public Information Division American Institute of Physics fyi@aip.org (301) 209-3095 ##END##########
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