“We cannot maintain a 21st-century economy with a 19th-century curriculum,” said Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman, who gave the final lecture of the 2004-2005 said that the 21st-century workplace requires substantial problem-solving skills; thus, schools have a "vastly more complex mission than earlier to prepare graduates for life in the age of the Internet." He suggested that students in grades 9-12 complete a “sensible science sequence” of physics, chemistry and biology—in that order—with an emphasis on the scientific process. >>

Leon M. Lederman, Nobel Laureate, director emeritus of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and founder and resident scholar at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, will discuss the crisis in U.S. science education and science literacy at a Technology and Society forum on April 20, 2005, 3-4:30 p.m. in the Jim Wise Theatre, Kupfrian Hall. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be webcast live that day by logging on to http://speakerforum.njit.edu/.  Contact: Jay Kappraff, 973-596-3490 or email: kappraff@adm.njit.edu. >>