Washington State Teachers Implementing New Science Curriculum

The Issaquah (WA) Press (11/2, Corrigan) reports that the Issaquah School District in Issaquah, Washington, is implementing a "new science curriculum" with the proceeds from a $1.1 million fundraising effort to buy "new science materials. That includes everything from textbooks and workbooks to models, measuring instruments and so on. Every elementary school in the district has gotten at least some of those items. ... A committee of teachers, school administrators and parents helped select the new curriculum," which focuses on "three distinct areas or domains of scientific inquiry: life or biology; physical sciences; and earth and space sciences."