U.S. High-School Enrollment in Physics Classes

Percentage of Americans who have taken high-school physics by the time they were 18 years old, in the years from 1930 to 2005.
Note: in 1930, 29 percent of 18-year-olds graduated high school, rising to 77 percent by 1970.

Reported by: The AIP Statistical Research Center

Associated Inside Science News Service report

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