Science Education & Policy

No Scientists Left In Europe By 2020?

It isn't just Americans concerned about science, though Europeans seem a little dramatic about it.   Currently, America can only employ 16% of its Ph.D.s in academia, what most academics regard as 'science', so there is a glut of post-docs ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 14 2011 - 12:25pm

The Kid Questions About Science That Parents Fear Most

Adult science literary has tripled since I was a kid, despite the shrill claims that teachers are incompetent, people are stupid and science education is "dismal" that we seen thrown around in consumer media and the advocacy-based segment of scie ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 19 2012 - 2:30pm

Is Your Child The Next Alan Turing?

Can your school-age child break this code? VS LBH NER NTRQ ORGJRRA RYRIRA NAQ FVKGRRA NAQ PNA ERNQ GUVF GURA JUL ABG RAGRE GUR NYNA GHEVAT PELCGBTENCUL PBZCRGVGVBA If so,  The School of Mathematics at The University of Manchester, where Turing helped devel ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2012 - 10:25pm

EU Citizens "Linguistically Disenfranchised" By Prevalence Of English

If you ask Europeans about the metric system, they declare America should get with the program because it is more popular. When it comes to speaking English, however,  barely a third of the EU's 500 million citizens speak English yet that is how the b ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 31 2012 - 2:30pm

Experts Explain How To Choose A School By The Numbers

Last week I wrote a somewhat half-baked post describing simple numbers that parents can use to pick an elementary school (the first and second were solid!). This week, I called around to get experts’ take on the topic. Here’s what they said. ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Feb 15 2012 - 8:04am

Directive For New E.U. Science Advisor Anne Glover: Make Europeans Less Anti-Science

Americans of a particular cultural and political persuasion like to regard Europeans as 'more' scientific because surveys reveal that they say 'yes' to the appropriate buzzwords.  Not so, even to European scientists. Europeans are inste ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 23 2012 - 11:45pm

My Local School Is Up For A $100K STEM Grant From Samsung: Here Is How You Can Help

Samsung wants to give away a lot of money for STEM projects in local schools and we all probably agree that is a good thing.  But there is no such thing as a free lunch so they want to give it away to people who can mobilize the most people that care about ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 15 2012 - 11:46am

To Diss or not to Diss?

There recently appeared on Scientific American Blogs an article by Jennifer Ouellette ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Feb 15 2012 - 3:27pm

What's More Important; Sex, Money Or...Pet Education?

LONDON, March 22, 2012- Two new surveys conducted among 2,500 adults and 400 teachers show what is really on the minds of those concerned about education; the need to teach about pets in schools. 89% of adults, 78% of primary teachers and 70% of secondary ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 23 2012 - 4:25pm

Teaching Skepticism In Science Classes Instead Of Facts

Every few years, an international test is given and American students finish in the middle of the pack.  They went up during the 2000s but American kids have never been at the top- international students learn facts and American kids learn 'how to thi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2012 - 11:00pm