Big biology books fail to convey big ideas, reports AAAS's Project 2061

WHAT: Press conference releasing the results of a rigorous evaluation of biology textbooks

WHO: Project 2061, the long-term science, math, and technology education reform initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

George D. Nelson, Ph.D.
Director of AAAS Project 2061

Jo Ellen Roseman, Ph.D.
Biology Textbook Evaluation Director

Andrea Bowden
Supervisor, Office of Mathematics, Science, and Health Education, Baltimore City Public School System

WHEN: Tuesday, June 27, 2000, 9:30 a.m.

WHERE: National Press Club
East Room
14th and F Streets NW, 13th Floor
Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: Eileen Kugler 703-644-3039 or Mary Koppal 202-326-6643

This is the latest in a series of evaluations by Project 2061 of science and math textbooks that are in wide use in K-12 schools. Results from earlier evaluations are already having an influence on textbook adoption committees around the country and on publishers developing new textbooks.

AAAS has a 150-year history of leadership on a broad range of important scientific and societal issues. As publisher of Science magazine, AAAS is an internationally respected source of information about all aspects of science and technology. AAAS initiated Project 2061 in 1985 to reform education in grades K-12 so that all high-school graduates are "science literate."