National Alliance of Black School Educators Endorses 'Physics First'
The National Alliance of Black School Educators has endorsed 'Physics First' as a curricular strategy to give every student the opportunity to formally learn physics, starting perhaps even as soon as the middle grades. Noting that only 25 percent of African-American high school students take physics, NABSE wants to help change that metric and have more students better positioned to be knowledge workers in the 21st-century economy. Implementing 'Physics First' will not only expose more students to physics coursework, it actually builds better science cognition in the students, supports the proper construction of scientific knowledge and leads to more higher-level science course taking later. In addition to endorsing 'Physics First,' NABSE and NSBP have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together on projects involving out-of-classroom learning opportunities for K-12 students, recruiting new teachers, in-service teacher development and policy advocacy. More
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