Perhaps the fundamental goal of science education should be finding ways to interest students in science. Stephen Hornstra Landgraaf, (The Netherlands) made this statement as part of his comment in my previous post. In this era of standards-based education we leave...
I decided to obtain a copy of Unscientific America by Mooney and Kirshenbaum via my Kindle App on my iPhone, and started reading immediately. A few days later, the book arrived. In an early part of the book, "the rise and cultural decline of American science," the...
I've been away on a trip to England for the past two weeks; this is the first post since the trip. On my way out of the Atlanta airport, I scanned the headlines of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) and read the cover story headline: Student rolls don't add up:...
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 90,000 students will graduate from Georgia's...
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 90,000 students will graduate from Georgia's...
The 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 paying these new teachers the same salary as a...
