Science Education & Policy

Some people might be encouraged by all of the science being done. I find it depressing. Since I started grad school (back in 2000), the number of papers in my current field (cell cycle) has doubled: Figure 1 from Renear and Palmer, Science 325:828-832 (200 ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Aug 14 2009 - 12:39pm

Evolution Doing Better in State Curricula

The National Center for Science Education has a report out on how evolution fares in the states (published in Evolution, Education, and Outreach.) Read the report to see how state science standards teach evolution. The authors, in addition to looking at th ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Aug 20 2009 - 11:41am

Modern Homework- Parental Concern About It A Myth, Says Study

Annoyed that your child schleps home 35 lbs. of books and settles in for 3 hours of homework per night? Dreaming of an ancient time when teachers teached during the day? Nope. Contrary to common belief, parents are okay with the homework load, accordi ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2009 - 11:14pm

As The Actress Said To The Bishop, Or, The Professional Practice University

We management professors are very conscious of the "professional school" label given to colleges of business, law, medicine, engineering, nursing, and education in diversified universities – universities in which some clinical fields, like psych ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Aug 22 2009 - 9:51am

Autism Drives Academia?

Tyler Cowen says the prevalence of individuals falling within autism spectrum make American academe competitive: A lot of people at colleges are aware of dealing with autism (and Asperger's syndrome; I will refer generally to the autism spectrum) in ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Aug 24 2009 - 12:17pm

A Reading Rainbow of Choices

We've all slogged through books in school that we didn't particularly like, wondering how knowing how to interpret the deeper subtexts of the oligarchial collectivist society in Orwell's 1984 will help us as adults. Education is a perennial ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Aug 30 2009 - 7:47am

Do You Want Kids To Get Better At Science? Then Write An Article For Them Starting... Now

Everyone says they want to get kids to get a better science- now we can all actually do something about it. We're doing a small beta test of our Science For Kids site. (1) It isn't perfect yet but that's why we need people to try it out. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 3 2009 - 4:17pm

Peer Review Blues

Right now I'm asking myself why I spent 100+ hours carefully writing a grant proposal that was destined to not get a serious reading. Below are dueling comments from the same reviewer (for the sake of discretion, some details have been censored): #1. ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Sep 3 2009 - 8:32pm

2009 Peer Review Survey Issues Preliminary Results

What does peer review do for science and what does the scientific community want it to do? Should peer review detect fraud and misconduct? Does peer review illuminate good ideas or shut them down? Should reviewers be anonymous? The Peer Review Survey 200 ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2009 - 9:38am

Improving Science Education

I received an interesting question today from an Alex Ziller in the comments thread of a recent post. Here it is: Do you think blogging actually improves Science? (I know, one should first define what "improving Science" actually means). I think ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 7 2009 - 1:37pm