Yesterday, I reported that the South Dakota state legislature moved a bill along that calls for a balanced teaching of global warming, "especially since global warming is a scientific theory and not a proven fact," to quote HR1009. This notion of using "theory" in...
Over the past two years, there has been a movement to develop a set of common standards in mathematics and reading, and the Carnegie Corporation announced that they would be collaborating with the National Research Council to develop a conceptual framework for a "new...
Would it be viable to offer science as an optional subject? What would happen to enrollment in science if it were an optional course? Would students sign up for such a course? How could the course be structured to interest students in wanting to take the course? In...
In the previous post I talked about the announcement from the National Research Council (NRC) that they will spearhead an effort to develop a new generation of science standards. One of the major influences on the new effort by the NRC will be a report it published...
There was a very interesting article in the current issue of the journal Science Education by Peter Fensham of Queensland University, Australia entitled The Link Between Policy and Practice in Science Education. In the article, Fensham argues that the science...
There was a very interesting editorial in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution entitled You'll never us this math again. It was written by Ken Sprague Sr., a high school math teacher. Mr. Sprague, in his own words says: I'm not advocating an end to math, only an end...
