https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/13/david-hoffman-catch-sputnik-ma/ Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:47:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/13/david-hoffman-catch-sputnik-ma/#comment-6496 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:47:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/13/david-hoffman-catch-sputnik-ma/#comment-6496 The new science books started to flow into the schools when I was still in grammar school. By the time I got to high school in the middle 1960s and took physics, my text was the state-of-the-art PSSC book. It was eye-popping. There was also a rival series of texts pouring out of Berkeley. The saber-rattling was a dismaying element of the Space Age, but the impact on the math and science classrooms turned school into a garden of earthly delights for kids like me. I guess I owe a lot to those Sputnik-launching commies…

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