Science as a Way of Knowing—A Summing Up

The most recent flurry of bad news has Lauro F. Cavazos, the Secretary of Edu? cation, saying, "As a nation we should be appalled, appalled that we have placed our children in such jeopardy." Further, he reported that one-third of high school juniors cannot write an adequate job appli? cation and two-thirds cannot write a good letter. The percentage of 17-year-old stu? dents capable of "adept reading" is 46 per? cent for non-Hispanic whites and about half that for blacks and Latinos. There is an