How about a simple solution?
In recent times, in seems as though everyone talks about how complex and controversial education reform is and how many elements need to evolve for schools to become better. While many solutions put forward push for massive institutional change and heavy financial commitments, I ask, "How about a simple solution?" This post is exactly that. Let's start with an even simpler question: What science classes did you take in high school, and in what order? If you are with the overwhelming majority of people who graduated high school in the last few decades, you undoubtedly took Biology first, then Chemistry, followed by Physics, if you chose to take it. Most high schools in America, whether an elite private school in Westchester or a public SIG school in Chicago, offer these three science classes in that order. Perhaps the better question is, why do schools sequence science classes in the way that they do? Most people, myself included, would pro