I've started reading Corporations are not People by Jeffrey Clements and with a forward by Bill Moyers. On this post, and many other blogs (1,2,3 for example), the "reform" of education in the interests of corporations and private foundations has led to situation that...
Is There An Assault on Science? Yesterday, I wrote a brief post introducing a new book by Shawn Otto entitled Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America. For the past four years, Otto has co-led Sciencedebate.org, a grassroots organization that has...
Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America is the title of a new book by Shawn Lawrence Otto, c0- founder of Science Debate 2008, one of the largest online (125 million) science sites that featured a "debate" between the 2008 Presidential candidates on...
I got a Tweet from Christopher Emdin, Professor at Columbia University Teachers College linking me to his recent article on the Huffington Post entitled 5 Reasons Why Public School Teachers are Occupying Wall Street. His reasons, which I will list below, resonated...
I've read the complete report on the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) CRCT testing scandal. It's hard to believe that there was such widespread activity in which student answers on the state's CRCT bubble sheets were changed. Why? That is the central question of this...
Yesterday, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) published an open letter on its website with the headline: AAAS Board: Attacks on Climate Researchers Inhibit Free Exchange of Scientific Ideas. In the letter, the Board said: Scientists and...
