I want to tell you about a book that was just published in the field of science education. It’s a book that I was asked to write the forward. I’ve never been asked to write a forward for a book. But I was honored, and I want to encourage you to examine this book, whether you are a science educator, a scientist or a citizen interested in public education.
Latest Story I received an email from Professor Emeritus Charles "Kip" Ault, Lewis & Clark University. We've never met, but we have a connection through each others' writing. In 1992, I wrote and published a science education book, Minds on Science (Library...
The Earth's climate has changed rapidly over the past fifty years, but when people talk about climate change, they frame it as a future threat. David Popeik, in Scientific American guest blog, says that "climate report nails risk communication." He suggests that the...
Figure 1. Carl Sagan and the Universe. Copyright sillyrabbitmythsare4kids, Creative Commons Science has been prominent in the media recently. Stories and programs including the Bill Nye-Ken Ham "debate" on origins, anti-science legislation in Wyoming...
Moving Beyond the Drama and Hyperbole that Dominate International Test Score Results. The Guardian newspaper published a series of articles the 2013 PISA international test results. In this post I want to focus on the article written by Finnish educator and...
The National Science Teachers Association released a position statement on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The NSTA statement is uncritical and authoritarian. It granted outright compliance with the NGSS, even though there is a groundswell questioning...
