Bruce Alberts

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Empowering Great Teachers

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The first Teacher Advisory Council at the Einstein statue of the National Academy of Science, 2004.

The first Teacher Advisory Council at the Einstein statue of the National Academy of Sciences, 2004.

One of the most serious challenges, being inadequately addressed today, is making US school systems efficient, effective places for teachers to teach and for students to learn. Our failed top-down experiment to improve schools under “No Child Left Behind” has greatly damaged US education and made unpleasant work environments for far too many of our talented, dedicated teachers. Guided by groups of our best teachers, we urgently need new thoughtful, scientifically based experiments that are intensely focused on reversing this trend.

Writings by Dr. Alberts on this subject
  • Empowering our best teachers: essential for producing more effective systems of education in the United States
    Essay for the National Academy of Education 50th Commemorative Volume, August 22, 2015.
  •  Empowering great teachers
    Science magazine editorial, January 15, 2016.

Current Work

Why Trust Science?

Concrete steps to diversify the scientific workforce

Improving support for young biomedical scientists

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