Science Education & Policy

The Consequences of Genetic Eavesdropping

John Hawks discusses how messy the abuse of genetic testing results could get: Imagine a custody battle, in which the father hires a private investigator to get a mother's genome. With two variants that yield a 15 percent higher risk of schizophrenia, ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 6 2009 - 2:08pm

An-ometer for everything?

Here at the University of Reading, the good folks of the Association for Science Education have been holding their annual conference, and RU staff members like myself are invited to participate. The event manifests itself by an exhibition marquee taking up ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jan 9 2009 - 2:18pm

Stimulus package may help scientists too

The economic crisis may actually help science. Cross your fingers- part of the stimulus package is tagged for expansion of the NSF, NIH and other entities. From Science online: ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jan 14 2009 - 10:07am

Working Under the Shadow of Big Science

If you haven't already, you should read this interesting guest post at Olivia Judson's blog: Many of the best-known scientists of our day are men and women exceptionally talented in herding the resources — human and otherwise — required to plan, ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 14 2009 - 12:30pm

The Obama Effect: Performance Gap In Black Students Disappeared At Times During Presidential Campaign

Positive racial role models may have an effect on school performance, according to new research by Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management professor Ray Friedman and co-authors who document what they call the “Obama Effect”- namely that th ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2009 - 11:10am

Good cop, bad cop

Obama is playing good cop to Bush's bad cop, letting EPA know that his administration will not deny facts but be guided by them. Continuing efforts to overturn more of the last administration's policies, President Obama signed a presidential memo ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jan 26 2009 - 7:16pm

New AAAS President to Scientists: Stop Complaining and Step Out of the Lab

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is getting a new president as well: Nobel laureate Peter Agre. He tells the New York Times that scientists need to get involved as citizens is they are concerned about good science policy: Q. R ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 27 2009 - 11:19am

Despite Slight Decline, U.S. Still 32 Percent Of World Science Output

The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters today announced the results of a study showing that the United States' share of scientific research has shrunk while Asia-Pacific's share of output has risen but the U.S. remains the leader globally in ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2013 - 4:27pm

Science Facts Are Not The Scientific Method

A study of college freshmen in the United States and in China found that Chinese students know more science facts than their American counterparts but both groups are nearly identical when it comes to their ability to do scientific reasoning- unfortunately ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2009 - 5:30pm

Gender Bias In Rating High School Science Teachers, Says Study

If you're a female science teacher, male students tend to underrate you.   Even worse, if you are a female science teacher in physics, both male and female students underrate you,  according to a study of 18,000 biology, chemistry and physics students ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2009 - 1:08pm