PEDIATRICS Vol. 83 No. 3 March 1989, pp. A92
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COMPULSORY SCIENCE AND MATH?

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"Why should we allow 13-year-old children to decide whether they will or will not study science and mathematics?" . . . "We compel children to learn to read, after all." As things stand, he added, only 15 percent of American high school students study physics, only 30 percent study chemistry and only 55 percent study algebra.