Under the Microscope

We need to move beyond dissecting frogs, people. The National Research Council has done its homework and determined that most high school science labs suck. New research into how to improve them wouldn't hurt, but there's already enough information available to start making labs better right now, says Susan Singer, chairman of the NRC's research panel that studied the issue and a biology professor at one of the nation's most esteemed institutions of higher learning, Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. (The fact that I went there is purely coincidental.)