The three - year, $ 1 million study, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and released here last week, found that only a handful of the questions on major commercially available tests in mathematics and science, as well as on tests included in textbooks, measured the kinds of conceptual knowledge and problem -
solving abilities reformers say should be integral to...
He often appears as the earnest
reformer, someone who perceives the world as a never - ending series of problems and crises to be
solved by the application of his reason and native
ability.