Science Education & Policy

Can You Explain to a Teenager Why They Shouldn't Text and Drive Using Science? Help me out.

My son just wrote an article for his 10th grade journalism class about a couple on their way to plan a Disney wedding in Orlando- their long-held dream wedding- who were hit by a truck driver that just had to answer a text in the middle of a highway. She w ...

Blog Post - Aimee Stern - Apr 25 2011 - 10:47am

Only 34 Percent Of Students Have A Solid Grasp Of Science- So?

In the quarterly lamentation about the need for science outreach in the U.S., what often gets lost is that not everyone will be good at science.   Lack of science knowledge is regarded as some sort of defect, but it is never an issue with the child, instea ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 30 2012 - 10:47pm

Dr. Paul Offit: Polarizing Figure Only On The Fringe

Dr. Paul Offit is the Hillary Clinton of the autism world. Or is he? It seems really unfair that a well-respected pediatrician and infectious disease expert who has devoted his career to saving lives is the recipient of the vitriol that places like Age of ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Jan 31 2011 - 10:50pm

Humboldt Squid on the East Coast!

The Squids 4 Kids outreach program I helped to start up is going strong! We've been doing a number of local dissections, both in and out of classrooms, and shipping squid around the country. They made the news in Florida: With cameras flashing and vid ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Feb 4 2011 - 1:12am

Women In Science: No Discrimination, Says Cornell Study

As the 21st century unfolds, if even one woman does not get a job, there will be claims of discrimination.   And some will believe discrimination occurs institutionally despite the evidence, and insist any action by individuals is proof of sexism.   That&# ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2011 - 4:48pm

Understanding Of Science Nearly Triple Since 1988

In the somewhat chronic angst over science understanding (more funding, more funding) one thing that gets lost is that it's really only 'fact-based' science, memorization, where American kids are behind those in Asia.  That changes over time ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2013 - 4:06pm

A Member of the "Jaws" Generation Laments the Severely Endangered Great White Shark

As a member of the  "Jaws" generation I have mixed feelings about a story I read this morning detailing the plight of the severely endangered great white shark. Oh I'm not talking about the affect that the extinction of these ancient killers ...

Blog Post - Aimee Stern - Mar 9 2011 - 11:27am

Myths Of Gifted Education

Dr. Paynter of the MD Dept of Ed noted that "all students have gifts, but there are some students who are ready, right now, to play varsity."  In America, we easily accept that some kids are just more athletic than others, and we support that.  I ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Feb 20 2012 - 7:50pm

A Pattern-oriented Approach to Complexity (PAC): Patterns.

In the first post I introduced a view on 'complexity thinking' which presupposes a life-world where ambiguity, uncertainty, indeterminacy and other hard to grasp concepts play an important role, both in a creative as in a destructive way. 1. Intr ...

Blog Post - Kees Pieters - Jun 17 2011 - 3:59am

Patterns, Objectivity And Truth

If we have done away-like postmodernism- with the notion of absolute truth, and we are living in a life-world where observers with limited knowledge try to 'make sense' of their envirnoment, then we we have certain freedom to define other forms o ...

Article - Kees Pieters - Jun 21 2011 - 3:18am