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...
The National Research Council has received funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to develop a framework for a new generation of science standards (K-12) based on the idea of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary core ideas. A committee of experts has already...
It doesn't matter whether you are high school student or teacher in Madrid, Manila, Marietta, Manchester, Moscow, Mumbai, or Montevideo, the chances are that you will study or teach the same concepts in the high school science curriculum. The science concepts that I...
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I---I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.---Robert Frost From the White House, to most Governor's houses around the country, Americans are being led down a pathway that the creative and innovative...
There was an interesting discussion in Yong Zhao's book, Catching Up, or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization about how John F. Kennedy used the launching of Sputnik to suggest that a "Missile Gap" existed between the United States and...
I am republishing a post that I made in October in which I discussed the U.S. Department of Education program, The Race to the Top Fund. Each state can choose to submit ONE application, and that application is due in Washington on January 19, 2010. You can go to the...
