US Science Education: Teacher Preparation

Eric Plutzer, a political science professor at Penn State University, has found that 28 percent of high school biology teachers do a good job of teaching evolution and are comfortable with the subject, while 13 percent do not believe in Darwinian evolution and often won't teach it.
That leaves a broad group of nearly 60 percent of teachers who accept the concepts of evolution but are wary of dealing with critics in their communities, Mr. Plutzer said. As a result, they often tell their students they have to teach evolution because it's part of the state standards, "but everyone is free to believe what they want."

USA Today seems content with the US "doing fine in science education".

References
•Roth, M., Why does the US Fail at Science Education? Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 29, 2012, Retrieved on September 26, 2012 from w.post-gazette.com/stories/news/us/why-does-us-fail-in-science-education-287936/.
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