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AMNH endorses Carnegie effort to transform science education

From EurekAlert. June 10, 2009

Urban advantage science education initiative highlighted in commission report

The American Museum of Natural History added its support to the Carnegie Corporation of New York–Institute for Advanced Study Commission on Mathematics and Science Education in its call to “do school differently,” kicked off by today’s release of the Commission’s report The Opportunity Equation: Transforming Mathematics and Science Education for Citizenship and the Global Economy. Ellen V. Futter, President of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and a member of the Carnegie Commission, joined prominent educators, funders, policymakers, mathematicians, and scientists to present the Commission’s findings at a press conference in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, June 10.