History of Science Education

Science Education

Period: Mar 7, 1900 to Mar 7, 2015

Women Scientist

Mar 5, 1920

In both the United States and the United Kingdom, the founding of women’s colleges provided for the first time a clear career path for women scientists.

Science Curriculum

Mar 5, 1920

Teachers protested that they did not know how to teach their students simple science. A theory was brought in place on how to teach students.

John Dewey

Mar 7, 1920

He created the Reconstruction in Philosophy

Math

Period: Mar 13, 1920 to Mar 13, 2015

Jagadis Bose and Albert Einstein

Mar 13, 1924

introduce Bose-Einstein statistics

J.H. Pestalozzi and German Friedrich Froebe

Mar 5, 1930

19th century the ideas of the Swiss educator J.H. Pestalozzi and of the German Friedrich Froebel inspired the use of object teaching, defined in 1878 by Alexander Bain in his widely studied Education as a Science as the attempt
to range over all the utilities of life, and all the processes of nature.

Piaget

Mar 7, 1930

Jean Piaget studied of the development of children's understanding, through observing them and talking and listening to them while they worked on exercises he set.

Kurt Gödel

Mar 13, 1931

He proves his incompleteness theorem, which shows that every axiomatic system for mathematics is either incomplete or inconsistent.

Schools

Mar 6, 1940

Boys only went to the small amount of public schools that their were in the 19th century.

Kenneth Levenberg

Mar 13, 1943

He proposes a method for nonlinear least squares fitting.

State Schools

Mar 6, 1950

State schools pursued cultural, national, social, and ideological goals as well. Every national school system taught one version of the national language. They were also all taught patriotic symbols.

Nicholas Metropolis

Mar 13, 1953

He introduces the idea of thermodynamic simulated annealing algorithms.

Sputnik

Mar 7, 1957

In the post-World War II USSR, a group of scientists led by Mikhail Tikhonravov at the newly created NII-4 military institute pioneered the work, which would ultimately lead to the first Soviet artificial satellite. This effort prepared ground work for the political decision to go ahead with the launch of Sputnik.

Secondary Schools

Mar 6, 1960

There were several kinds of nonclassical secondary schools. At the highest level they combined limited ancient language instruction with cosiderable scientific and technical education. The graduates seldom went on to the university, but could attend advanced technical schools.

Martin Kruskal and Norman Zabusky

Mar 13, 1965

They numerically study colliding solitary waves in plasmas and find that they do not disperse after collisions.

National Science Foundation

Mar 7, 1970

A foundation United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering

Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken

Mar 13, 1976

They use a computer to prove the Four color theorem.

Voyager 1

Mar 7, 1977

Voyager 1 makes a close attempt to Saturn.

STEM

Mar 7, 1983

The 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education is an independent, non-profit, federally tax exempt organization funded through federal, state and school district contracts to advance literacy and achievement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by partnering with institutions of higher education, economic development entities, other non-profits and school districts.

Yasumasa Kanada, David Bailey, Jonathan Borwein, and Peter Borwein

Mar 13, 1987

They use iterative modular equation approximations to elliptic integrals and a NEC SX-2 supercomputer to compute π to 134 million decimal places.

David Deutsch and Richard Jozsa

Mar 13, 1992

They all developed the Deutsch–Jozsa algorithm, one of the first examples of a quantum algorithm that is exponentially faster than any possible deterministic classical algorithm.

Science Standards

Mar 7, 1996

All students must go to school and their are standards that teachers must follow in order to teach the students the right material.

Science and Technology

Mar 7, 2005

Science is more incorperated in the classroom along with technology.

Yitang Zhang

Mar 13, 2013

He proves the first finite bound on gaps between prime numbers

A Nation At Risk

Mar 7, 2015

Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility.