ABSTRACT
The chapters by Osborne and by Biddle and Schafft (this volume) provide analytical lenses for viewing student opportunity to engage in science. Osborne’s chapter provides a view “from 30,000 feet,” articulating an intellectual framework for international standards and assessments, whereas the Biddle and Schafft chapter describes anthropologic work “on the ground,” (i.e., the highly localized experience of contemporary boomtowns in the Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale region of the United States and the challenges it raises for K-12 science educators).
