Thomas Friedman's idea of a "flat world," outlined in his book The World is Flat suggested that the rapid diffusion of computer and telecommunications technology into the lives of individuals in many nations around the world ushered us into a radically different era. ...
With the election of a new administration in Washington, one of the major areas of "change" will be education. More than $100 billion will be invested in education as part of the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act. In a speech earlier this week, President Obama...
With the election of a new administration in Washington, one of the major areas of "change" will be education. More than $100 billion will be invested in education as part of the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act. In a speech earlier this week, President Obama...
One of the major themes that has dominated the literature of science education since the late 1980s is the notion of "Science for All." Although possibly used before, Project 2061 of the AAAS used the term "Science for All Americans," as the title of its 1989 book...
I could have titled this "Is science teaching political?: A Humanistic Question." In an article (Scientific literacy: A Freirean perspective as a radical view of humanistic science education) recently published in Science Education, Wildson L.P. dos Santos, of the...
There were two opinion pieces in the editorial section of Sunday's Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper to shed light on an issue that surfaced as the result of a report released by the Governor's Office of Student Achievement. The report (Governor’s Office of...
