Hawaii’s public school science standards get a ‘D’ from the D.C.-based Thomas B. Fordham Institute in a its “State of State Science Standards 2012” report released this week.
Although the standards for elementary grades get good marks, the high school material is “woefully inadequate,” the report says.
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