High‐School Physics: Progress and Continuing Challenge
In September 1983, PHYSICS TODAY devoted a special issue to the crisis in US high‐school physics education. That issue was prepared in the wake of a series of well‐publicized reports from a number of prominent national commissions and committees that documented the severity of the crisis. Of particular interest to the physics community was the shortage of qualified high‐school physics instructors across the nation and the low level of high‐school physics enrollment.