Update: Shawn Otto of Science Debate will be featured on NPR's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday at 2 ET. Discussion on science in the elections. In 2007, a small group of American citizens, lead by Shawn Otto, created Science Debate 2008, an organization that...
We introduced this topic yesterday and referred to an Associated Press story, in which Richard Leakey suggests that the debate over evolution will end sometime over the next 15 to 30 years. Leakey's thesis was: If you get to the stage where you can persuade people on...
Fernbank Science Center, a decades old institution owned and operated by the DeKalb County public schools is in danger of being closed due to a budget shortfall of $73 million. The annual cost of operating Fernbank is about $4.7 million, and it is on the list of...
Sometime ago, we argued that there is little evidence that the National Science Education Standards published in 1996 and the Next Generation Science Standards released for public view by Achieve are any different than the content oriented projects of the 1960s. The...
Note: This is the second in a series of posts on the Next Generation Science Standards. You can read the first one here. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are the latest iteration of writing science objectives for the eventual purpose of testing students'...
UPDATE: The Next Generation Science Standards are available for public view and feedback here. According to various bloggers, the Next Generation Science Standards are to be released today for public review. The release has been delayed twice, and hopefully...
