Science Education & Policy

"Attachment Theory"- Emotion Coaching For Disruptive Kids In Classrooms

Imagine a classroom where children are unable to wait their turn or stay focused on their work. They are easily distracted, cannot remember basic instructions or hold enough information in their head to solve problems – skills teachers rely on in order to ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 26 2015 - 8:30am

Congress Adopts A Common-Sense Approach To The California Drought

As I wrote in  California Government Is The Big Water Management Problem, we can't make it rain but we could at least stop letting bizarre environmental lobbying get a super vote for how to mitigate the issue. While farmers and the public face mandato ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 6 2015 - 11:11am

New York Bans Fracking, Prepares To Buy More Energy From Fracking

What do wealthy progressives in New York and California share in common? Both groups are happy to exploit poor people as part of their self-identification. In California, that has involved not vaccinating their children, instead letting poor kids get vacci ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 29 2015 - 2:34pm

Is Abortion In America About To Get Restricted?

The Supreme Court seems poised to take on the abortion issue again, and with reason. On June 29, by a five-to-four vote, the Court temporarily blocked a Texas law that would force many clinics to close, guaranteeing that the state’s new law would not take ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2015 - 8:30am

Qualitative Research: Lessons From Rashomon

In Akira Kurosawa's timeless 1950 masterpiece (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt004287 ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Jul 1 2015 - 12:16am

Varying Animal Research Standards Are Leading To Bad Science

Scientific research sometimes requires the use of animals. It’s a fact. And as long as that is the case, we need to do everything in our power to minimize the distress for laboratory animals. This is not just for the sake of the animals, but also for the ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 29 2015 - 7:30am

People Are Not Scared Of GMO Warning Labels

There is an economic and political battle taking place in America over the labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods. In 2015, 19 US states considered GM food labeling legislation and three States, Connecticut, Maine and Vermont have passed mandatory GM ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 30 2015 - 7:30am

A Sugar Tax Would Combat Obesity, Says Economist

Following the British Medical Association's plan for a 20% sugar tax to subsidize the cost of fruit and vegetables- which some pundits must believe contain no carbohydrates- another group have added their voices to such scientization of politics in B ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 5 2015 - 7:00am

Why President Obama's EPA Plan Will End Up At The Supreme Court

Even before President Obama announced the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan on August 3 to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, there were a number of legal challenges to block the law at its proposal stage – none of them su ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2015 - 10:00am

Stop Making Energy More Expensive, Invest In The Technologies Of Tomorrow

Democrats (myself included) enjoy ridiculing Republicans who deny the scientific consensus behind climate change. But we then deny the inconvenient truth behind our own preferred climate policies: they will have regressive impacts on the poor and middle c ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 7 2015 - 5:32pm