March 9, 2001

Harnessing Science to Benefit Society

By MICHAEL M. CROW

Scientists have made many great discoveries during the past 100 years, but those discoveries have affected society in complex and sometimes paradoxical ways. For example, science and technology helped drive the economic boom of the 1990's, but they also helped amplify the gap between the haves and have-nots in the United States and around the world. We have already entered the knowledge economy, but our public schools remain unable to prepare our children for the challenges of that economy.

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