Yes, it did snow today in Atlanta, and indeed all around the southeastern region of the USA. It normally does not snow in March in Atlanta. This year has been the year snow, especially in the eastern part of the USA. Some pundants, and especially one US Senator have...
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...
There was a very interesting article in the current issue of the journal Science Education by Peter Fensham of Queensland University, Australia entitled The Link Between Policy and Practice in Science Education. In the article, Fensham argues that the science...
The U.S. Department of Education received about $100 billion ($100,000,000,000) from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It's an enormous amount of money that is going to given to the States. $4.35 billion of this amount has been earmarked as The Race to the...
Health care has emerged as one of the most contentious issues of the day in the USA. The contention is not new. This PBS time line covering the past 100 years identifies points of contention and progress in the government's attempt to deal with health care on a...
Several months ago I purchased Steven Johnson's new book The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America. I started reading it, but for some reason put it away, only to return to it this weekend. I finished reading it...
