Maureen Downey, education editorial writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote a piece about graduation rates in yesterday’s edition entitled Can’t throw up our hands as teens quit. According to Downey about...
Read MoreMaureen Downey, education editorial writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote a piece about graduation rates in yesterday’s edition entitled Can’t throw up our hands as teens quit. According to Downey about...
Read MoreAs a science teacher, we’re always looking for new tools and strategies that will motivate, and help students learn science. Several days ago I introduced the idea of Science Teaching 3.0, and in that post suggested that...
Read MoreAs a science teacher, we’re always looking for new tools and strategies that will motivate, and help students learn science. Several days ago I introduced the idea of Science Teaching 3.0, and in that post suggested that...
Read MoreIn the last post, I introduced the notion that we can look at science teaching, globalization, the Earth, and the World Wide Web using a three-point scale, e.g. 1.0, 2.0, 3.0. In particular, I introduced the use of the word-sign...
Read MoreIn his book The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman used the terms Globalization 1.0, Globalization 2.0, and Globalization 3.0 as a way to compare and contrast three great eras of globalization. In the fabric of the World Wide Web,...
Read MoreWe know you have a lot on your plate—a deep recession, two wars in the Middle East, health care reform, extreme partisanship, the fast spreading swine flu. Yet the one area that that is essential to our well being as a...
Read MoreThere was a very interesting new comment made on an earlier post entitited Should science teaching be political: A Humanistic Question. In that post I explored the ideas of researcher Wildson dos Santos, who had published an...
Read MoreI want to follow up from yesterday’s discussion of Georgia’s plan to boost beginning science teachers pay. I am prompted to do so because of the compelling comment on yesterday’s post by Quin Harrell. Here is...
Read MoreThe Georgia General Assembly passed a bill (HB 280) which the Governor signed relating to the employment and pay for mathematics and science teachers. The bill would boost new math & science teachers’ salaries by...
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