STECIALTy, IN 1973
RESEARCHREPORTS
tional, write that Soviet education is far more heavily oriented toward sci- entific and technical training.
The Soviet emphasis on science education begins early. Biology in-struction commences in the fifth grade, physics in the sixth grade, and chemistry in the seventh. American students take up such courses later and for shorter periods of time-56 percent of all American students in grades nine through 12 took no science courses at all in 1973. Soviet science...