Science Education & Policy

The National Center for Science Education has a report out on how evolution fares in the states (published in Evolution, Education, and Outreach.) Read the report to see how state science standards…

Annoyed that your child schleps home 35 lbs. of books and settles in for 3 hours of homework per night?   Dreaming of an ancient time when teachers teached during the day? Nope.  Contrary…

Some people might be encouraged by all of the science being done. I find it depressing. Since I started grad school (back in 2000), the number of papers in my current field (cell cycle) has doubled…

Higher education has helped women narrow the wage gap but there is one college-related factor that has becoming increasingly important in perpetuating that gap, according to new research. And that…

If you’re serious about pursuing an extended education in science, you may want to set your sights on one of the U.S. campuses that have been identified as having the best science graduate programs.…

Most people learn more quickly if they are rewarded for making correct decisions but little is understood about how rewards facilitate the learning process. Studies have shown that if a decision…

One component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (AKA: Stimulus Package) still making its way through the pipeline is 250 million for the development of statewide longitudinal data systems…

In January this year, I finally found some like me out there! I was contacted. By a fellow space enthusiast. Throughout my childhood, I rarely met anyone who shared my curiosity for space and…

I'm sure that you don't seriously think I would tell you how to destroy all of the science community - do you?Anyway, what I wanted to explain in simple terms to you is the four things that everybody…

What separates us from the animals?   Some of us contend it's technology while others say it's Pynchon novels but really how we learn has to be in the top five. Researchers in neuroscience,…