Sound: a: free from error, fallacy, or misapprehension <sound reasoning> b: exhibiting or based on thorough knowledge and experience <sound scholarship> c: legally valid <a sound title> d: logically valid and having true premises e: agreeing with...
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Science Scores on International Assessments: The Sky is Falling
In yesterday's post, I described Science Debate 2008, and efforts to engage the two major candidates for President to answer 14 important questions about science. The one question that focused on science education was as follows: A comparison of 15-year-olds in...
Presidential Candidates Answer Top 14 Questions on Science
You can find the answers to 14 science questions that were submitted to Barack Obama and John McCain at the Science Debate website. Starting in 2007, a small group of individuals began working on the possibility of having a debate between the two candidates focusing...
Teaching About Global Warming, or Should It Be "Global Weirding"
People who say "drill-baby-drill" are much like people in the 1980s when personal computers came on the scene saying we need more typewriters and carbon paper (paraphrased from Thomas Friedman--see the video in this post). The "drill-baby-drill" is a mantra of those...
Teaching About Global Warming, or Should It Be “Global Weirding”
People who say "drill-baby-drill" are much like people in the 1980s when personal computers came on the scene saying we need more typewriters and carbon paper (paraphrased from Thomas Friedman--see the video in this post). The "drill-baby-drill" is a mantra of those...
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: A Revolutionary Paradigm of Teaching for Energy and Environment
In a democracy, there are differing views on how the government and industry should deal with energy, energy sources, and the environment. I've visited the American Presidency Project, and there you can read the complete platforms of the Democrats and Republicans. ...
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