Science Education & Policy

Environmental Studies Courses Need More Diversity Of Thought

Even before Jacqueline Ho enrolled in her first environmental studies course at college, her thinking about climate change had been shaped during her years growing up in Singapore reading books by the environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben. At co ...

Article - The Conversation - May 4 2015 - 5:50pm

How Exceptional Teachers Use Creativity In The Classroom

The U.S. educational system clearly produces some of the best minds in the world. America leads in science output and in adult science literacy, yet when it comes to standardized tests, the United States has always been in the middle of the pack and that ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 5 2015 - 12:56pm

A Call For Changes To Daycare Mandatory Nap Rules

A new study examined the relationship between mandatory nap times in daycare and children's night-time sleep duration concurrently and then 12 months later and found children who were exposed to more than 60 minutes mandatory sleep at childcare slept ...

Article - News Staff - May 11 2015 - 11:56am

Big Cosmetic And Sen. Dianne Feinstein Go After Your Handmade Soap

What do you have when someone declares that organic food should be separate from USDA oversight but organic soap should have special oversight if it is not made by a large corporation? A California politician. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 14 2015 - 12:37pm

Learning Styles-Based Education- The Child as the Central Focus

"If the child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way [he] learn[s]"  - Ignacio Estrada, Facebook Post Learning styles-based education (LSBEd) places the child as the center of education. Learning Styles-Based Education ...

Blog Post - Camilo Tabinas - May 2 2019 - 8:41am

Why The Uproar Over Unjust Teacher Evaluations Is A Sham

Recently, Sheri Lederman, a 4 th   grade ...

Article - Cevin Soling - May 15 2015 - 1:23pm

The Challenges Of Scientific Publishing: A Conference By Elsevier

I spent the last weekend in Berlin, attending a conference for editors organized by Elsevier. And I learnt quite a bit during two very busy days. As a newbie- I am handling editor for the journal "Reviews in Physics" since January this year- I di ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 18 2015 - 10:28am

Argument: Offset California's Water Crisis With A Levy On Inefficient Farms

It's not a secret that organic farms trade modern science for inefficiency in production and higher profit margins- but that does not count the 'intangibles' that go into organic farming, argue Terry Anderson and Henry Miller, and those high ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 18 2015 - 3:52pm

Not All Genetic Scientists Are Against GMO Labeling

Some Americans may regard the half of U.S. science that works in academia as overtly partisan due to a lack of political diversity, but it doesn't affect science issues. Though the anti-vaccine, anti-GMO and anti-energy movements are overwhelmingly po ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 22 2015 - 2:14am

Index Of School Readiness Highlights Importance Of Family Support

The U.K. government has indicated that it wishes to introduce testing for all children at Reception (when they first enter school at age four) this year. These tests seek to provide baseline assessments of a child’s ‘school readiness’ but teacher unions ha ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2015 - 8:30am