Science Education & Policy

Higgs Discovery Exciting? We Could Have Found It First!

The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) was not too big to fail. Although it was a massive opportunity for the United States to maintain its primacy in high-energy physics and basic research, the SSC was not sufficiently big on the federal funding list b ...

Article - Michael Gamble - Jul 5 2012 - 3:46pm

The Tower Of Babel Inside Us All: Switching On Metalinguistic Awareness

In Basque, all you have to do is look at the verb to see whether the sentence has a direct object. Why not use that to learn the syntax of Spanish? If you already know how to form conditional sentences in Basque and in Spanish, why start from scratch to le ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2012 - 4:05pm

The Gender Issue: Girls Do As Well In Math But Suffer More Anxiety

In America, the last few years saw young females and males achieve math parity for the first time ever.  But girls are still anxious about math, and that has nothing to do with teachers or outreach or the oppression of a liberal democracy. Mathematics anxi ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2012 - 5:00pm

Teaching Inorganic Nomenclature(Part 2) to Non-Chemistry Majors: The 5-Step, 5-Cycle Teaching Model

According to Grossman and Loeb (2010),“the variation in teacher preparation pathways can propel understanding of how best to prepare teachers.” (p.22). Using this premise, I was able to synthesize the different pathways of actual teaching deliveries by th ...

Blog Post - Camilo Tabinas - Nov 12 2017 - 7:02am

2011 Journal Impact Factor Highlights- More Than Half Improved

According to the "2011 Journal Citation Reports" (JCR) published by Thomson Reuters, Elsevier saw 58% of its journal Impact Factors increase from 2010 to 2011, which mirrored the overall trend- 54% of other journals also increased.  Impact Facto ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2012 - 5:11pm

Why Is Generation X So Skeptical About Climate Change?

We just had Snowmageddon and then heat a heat wave in parts of the US. Local, short-term weather events are suddenly proof of long-term climate change once again, according to journalists and biased bloggers who claim to care about science. "Generatio ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 20 2012 - 5:30am

Debunking The 'America Does Not Invest Enough In Science' Myth

Fareed Zakaria of CNN writes the Global Public Square column and expressed concern recently that America was losing ground in science because of research funding and education.   ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 27 2012 - 5:30am

Why A More Conservative Approach Would Fix Science Education

In a recent ScienceDebate questionnaire response, speechwriters for Candidate Mitt Romney tried to distinguish themselves from speechwriters for President Obama on education(1), and then proceeded to say the exact same thing Candidate Obama said in 2008 ab ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 13 2012 - 2:21pm

Contrarian View: Science Standards In School Won't Help?

I will tell you a secret. The loudest partisan progressives, some even in the science community, can find a way to hate anything if a Republican is involved.  So George Bush doubled NIH funding?  He still hated biology, we were told. No Child Left Behind i ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 13 2012 - 6:00am

Liberal Bias In Academia?

A few days ago I was asked by a Washington Times reporter, Emily Esfahani Smith, to comment on a soon to be published paper concerning the issue of liberal (or, rather, anti-conservative) bias in the academy. I am weary of the Washington Times, a paper tha ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Aug 16 2012 - 11:30am