September 19, 2008

The Leaky Pipeline of Science Education

To the Editor:

In "How Our Culture Keeps Students Out of Science" (The Chronicle, August 8), Peter Wood contends that "promotion of diversity and multiculturalism" is "hostile to advanced achievement in the sciences and technology." In fact, I can offer evidence that close attention to the changing demographics of our student body contributes to higher overall achievement in the sciences.

In the early to mid-1990s, Grinnell College, where I teach, noted a problem:

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