A bit of play on words, but today I received an email (which was sent to hundreds of people) from Kevin Knobloch, President of the Union of Concerned Scientists. In the letter, Knobloch, who sees the election of Obama as a...
Read MoreToday, we achieved a Watershed in US history by electing Barack Obama as our next President. What else is there to say. Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on...
Read MoreI am writing this hours before we know the result of today’s election for President. Some thoughts about science and science education and how they might be affected by the election of John McCain or Barack Obama. Over the...
Read MoreI know that this topic seems a bit out of place, but I wanted to follow up comments made by David Calladine, one of the readers of this weblog. David teaches science in the UK, and specializes in teaching environmental science....
Read MoreThere 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,...
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