Resources: Science Literacy

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Statistics and articles on Science for the Public homepage Heads Up! Surprising Stats on Science Literacy

STATISTICS

• IES/NCES International Comparisons: Science, Reading, and Mathematics Literacy of 15-Year-Old Students: 2017
• Pew Research Center: What Americans Know about Science, 2019 (2019)
• National Science Board: Science and Engineering Indicators, 2018
• IEC International Science/Math/Reading Literacy, 2015

BOOKS

• What’s Next? Dispatches on the Future of Science. Max Brockman (Ed.). (Vintage Books, 2009)
• Science Under Siege. Kendrick Frazier (Ed.). (Prometheus Books, 2009)
• Unscientific America. Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum. (Basic Books, 2009)

ARTICLES

• Scientific Communication in a Post-Truth Society (PNAS 2919)
• Comment: Science Education and the Future of Humankind. Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate, Physics. (Science News, 2008)
• How to advance scientific literacy (Phys.Org, 2009)
• NASA on crusade to debunk 2012 apocalypse myths (Phys.Org, 2009)