In yesterday’s post, I described Science Debate 2008, and efforts to engage the two major candidates for President to answer 14 important questions about science. The one question that focused on science education...
Read MoreYou can find the answers to 14 science questions that were submitted to Barack Obama and John McCain at the Science Debate website. Starting in 2007, a small group of individuals began working on the possibility of having a...
Read MoreChange is on the minds of everyone these days. Mike Dias sent me a news release that originated from the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation, entitled “National Survey Identifies Incentives To Attract Talented Career...
Read MoreCan you believe that figure. According to a University System of Georgia report, by 2010, Georgia will have to produce more than 2,000 middle school and high school science teachers. In yesterday’s Atlanta Journal...
Read MoreOne of the leading groups of teachers who have designed action projects and lesson plans that focus on social justice is the iEARN (International Education and Resource Network). I met many of the teachers from iEARN when I was...
Read MoreThe title of this post is really a play on words in the sense that good teaching is characterized by an emphasis on student involvement, inquiry, and innovation. It happens naturally if we plan lessons that put the student in...
Read MoreToday I received a NARST list email from Angela Calabrese Barton (acb@msu.edu) & Bhaskar Upadhyay (upadh006@umn.edu) requesting research papers for submission for an issue of Equity & Excellence in Education on the theme...
Read MoreI received an email from Nate Carnes, President of the Southeast Association for Science Teacher Education (SASTE) announcing the SASTE’s annual conference entitled: Social Justice and High Quality Science Education for...
Read MorePeople who say “drill-baby-drill” are much like people in the 1980s when personal computers came on the scene saying we need more typewriters and carbon paper (paraphrased from Thomas Friedman–see the video in...
Read MorePeople who say “drill-baby-drill” are much like people in the 1980s when personal computers came on the scene saying we need more typewriters and carbon paper (paraphrased from Thomas Friedman–see the video in...
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