Last week the Massachusetts Board of Education approved the adoption of the Common Core Standards in Language and Mathematics, replacing their own standards which had been in place for nearly two decades, and viewed in high...
Read MoreIn a post that I wrote in February, I announced that the National Research Council had received funding from the Carnegie Foundation to develop a “conceptual framework for a new generation of science standards.”...
Read MoreThe Art of Teaching Science has been identified as one of 15 top science teaching blogs by Maria Magher’s blog. We are very thrilled to be one of the weblogs on Maria’s list. There you will find a collection of...
Read MoreThere was a very interesting study completed at the University of Michigan entitled When Corrections Fail: The persistence of political misperceptions by researchers Brendan Nyhan, School of Public Health, University of...
Read MoreHappy July 4th, an important day for us all, and my favorite holiday. There are serious problems all around us, but today perhaps we can reflect on the importance of the American day of Independence. The notion of independence...
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