SCIENCE LITERACY: U.S. COLLEGE COURSES REALLY COUNT
Science • February 2010 • Views: 259
Over the past two decades, science literacy in the United States – an estimate of the share of adults who can follow complex science issues and maybe even render an informed opinion on them – has nearly tripled.
But – and it’s a big but — the proportion of people who fall into this category remains small. Just 28 percent.