The issue focused on the study of science in schools, and whether science education at all should be given a place in public school curricula. The policy research studies has been reported on by researchers from Columbia University, Harvard University, Stanford University, and several other academic institutions.

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Pavlina Tcherneva, an associate professor of physics at Washington State University who was not involved in the study, said that she would