American children do much better identifying the correct answers to simple scientific tasks than using evidence from their experiments to explain those answers.
Tests show students struggle to explain answers in science
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 | 5:00 p.m. CDT;
updated 8:28 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, June 19, 2012
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