PHYS-MA-TECH: An Integrated Partnership

There is a national movement across the U.S. to reform education, especially for students of average ability and school achievement–the “forgotten majority”. Curricular integration across disciplines using teacher teams to broaden learning contexts as well as improving access to academic courses such as physics and mathematics has been a response to the call for reform (see, for example, American Chemical Society, 1988; Benson, 1989; Bottoms, 1989; Edgerton, 1990; Grubb, Davis, Lum, Plihal, & Morgaine, 1991).