VT Edition: Pat Fitzsimmons & Bill Eschholz on improving science education statewide

There were disappointing results on Vermont’s first statewide school science assessment. Are Vermont students learning the science they’ll need for the 21st century? Pat Fitzsimmons of the Vermont Department of Education and award-winning science teacher Bill Eschholz of Mount Mansfield Union High School talk with VPR’s Jane Lindholm about how science is taught in Vermont, and about efforts to improve the science education statewide.