Rep. Davis Calls for National Standards to Help Math, Science Education
By Elizabeth Malloy
San Diego Daily Transcript
With science and technology becoming a more prominent part of everyone's life, and American students falling further behind in those subjects, U.S. Rep. Susan Davis (D-San Diego) told a gathering of life science professionals that national education standards may soon be necessary.
“As a member of Congress, I know how tough this issue is,” she said, noting that the United States leaves education standards up to the individual states, and representatives don’t want to be perceived as threatening states’ rights.
“But the reality is, I think we have to go there,” she continued. “You can’t have quality assessments, on math and science particularly, if they’re not linked to standards.”
Davis was speaking at a roundtable event hosted by the local life science trade group Biocom and the California Healthcare Institute at the Preuss School, a charter school for grades six through 12 located on the University of California, San Diego campus. The school’s students are from low-income families whose parents did not graduate from college, and Preuss aims to prepare them to attend universities.
The roundtable was designed to show Davis and others in attendance some of the work the local life science industry is doing to help bolster math and science education in San Diego County and beyond. See the rest of the story here.