There was a very interesting article in the New York Times entitled High Schools to Cultivate Interest. The article focused in on a school district that is experimenting with “redefining traditional notions of a...
Read MoreLast week, ScienceDebate 2008 held a conference at the University of Minnesota. The conference was the result of a grass roots campaign hoping to engage Barack Obama and John McCain in a real debate on science and technology....
Read MoreThe focus of the November issue of The Science Teacher is Project-Based Science (PBS), and it includes several articles written by science teachers and researchers. In addition to articles on the theory underlying PBS, there...
Read MoreI ask this as a question, rather than making it a declarative statement. But I was prompted to write about this topic based on a lead article in yesterday’s USA Today entitled Teachers take test scores to the bank as...
Read MoreGas prices are down in the $2 range, and Thomas Friedman says that it leaves him with mixed feelings. In his bi-weekly New York Times column today, he reminded us that when gas prices went beyond $4, Americans changed a...
Read MoreIn this post I want to announce a new website entitled: Science Curriculum—A Global Perspective. In the last two posts I alluded to science teaching from a global perspective. In the first of these two posts,...
Read MoreSome 15 years ago I met Boris Berenfeld, a scientist and researcher working at TERC (he is now a principal researcher at the Concord Consortium) on the Global Lab project, which was developed during the time I was working with...
Read MoreSome 15 years ago I met Boris Berenfeld, a scientist and researcher working at TERC (he is now a principal researcher at the Concord Consortium) on the Global Lab project, which was developed during the time I was working with...
Read MoreIn two recent posts I wrote about ScienceDebate 2008, a grassroots movement to engage the two presidential candidates in debating their views on science, science education and science in society. I specifically discussed two of...
Read MoreThere is new weblog on the New York Times website that I want to mention today, and it is called Green Inc.: Energy, the Environment and the Bottom Line. Developed by three environmental educators and writers, this weblog...
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