Education: The New Physics Class

Since last fall, eight carefully selected public and private secondary schools-have been teaching a revolutionary physics course designed by M.I.T.'s prestigious Physical Science Study Committee. Last week, talking to meetings of scientists and educators around the nation. Committee Executive Director Dr. Elbert P. Little reported first results of the course. Said he: "The reaction has been so good that it scares us—we're almost afraid to believe it."

The new course stems from the conviction of such committee members as Nobel Prizewinners I. I. Rabi and Edward Purcell that most high school physics texts...