Over the past month, I've written several posts about the film Waiting for Superman, and wanted to return to it today, and point you to the Bridging Differences Weblog by Diane Ravitch and Deborah Meier, and their criticism not only of this film, but how the forces...
Science at the White House. This is not a contradiction in terms. This is not an oxymoron. For the first time, the President of the United States brought to the White House award winning science projects, much like bringing the championship football or baseball...
Who travels faster than a speeding bullet? Who jumps buildings in a single bound? No, its not superman, its probably your 7th grade science teacher! I've written about a movie which was just released titled Waiting for Superman. Here is the official movie trailer....
There was an article published today in the New York Times entitled STEM Education has little to do with flowers written by Natalie Angier. She started her article this way: If you want to talk about bolstering science and math education in this country, I’ll gladly...
Last week I was asked to contribute to the Room for Debate discussion site on The Opinion Pages of the New York Times. On a nearly daily basis, Room for Debate posses a questions, and solicits contributions from four or five individuals. The Room for Debate topics...
In the early 1970s, while at Georgia State University, a team of science educators (professors, science education graduate students, and classroom teachers) spent two years developing a comprehensive set of objectives and test items for elementary science, grades...
