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Science 27 July 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5837, pp. 457 - 458
DOI: 10.1126/science.1144214
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TRANSITIONS:
The Two High-School Pillars Supporting College Science

Philip M. Sadler1* and Robert H. Tai2

Out-of-discipline high-school science courses are not associated with better performance in introductory college biology, chemistry, or physics courses, but high-school math counts.

1Department of Science Education, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

2Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA.

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: psadler{at}cfa.harvard.edu

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