11.   Higher standards of math and science teaching and curriculum, which would boost the number of students in science and technology from all sources.

12.   Members of a national commission wrangled inconclusively Tuesday over how to improve math and science teaching in the United States.

13.   The problem of uneven science teaching is particularly acute in the early grades, for which teachers are trained as generalists, educators said.

14.   While California standards could harm Pasadena instruction, elsewhere state standards could improve what previously passed for science teaching.