The American Association for the Advancement of Science is the leading general scientific society in the world, with more than 140,000 individual members and nearly 300 affiliated scientific, engineering, and mathematics societies and academies of science.
Project 2061 is a long-term initiative of the AAAS to reform K-12 education in natural and social science, mathematics, and technology, Begin in 1985, The Project is developing a set of tools to help local, state, and nationl educators redesign curriculum in these areas and ensure its success. Science for All Americans, outlines what all students should know and be able to do by the time they leave high school. Other publications of the Project address goals for progress at several grade levels along the way, principles for curriculum design, and changes needed in other aspects of the educationl system to enable the curriculum to succeed. Each successive publication is based on the earlier ones and is meant to be used with them in planning reform
From: Science for All Americans, Project 2061" Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1990