Annual U.S. self-flagellation over PISA test scores

<p>If that’s how “integrated science” is done, then, I agree, it makes no sense. :s It sounds like the hodge-podge approach taken for “general science” in middle school.
My vision of this is a progressive curriculum over 2-3 years, possibly starting in 8th grade and ending in the 10th, with the possibility to take AP’s or IBSL/HL’s in 11th and 12th after having learned the first level of all sciences, seeing how they relate to each other (chemistry/biology, physics/earth science, technology/CS, perhaps?)</p>