Science Education & Policy

Did you ever get called impulsive by a teacher?   You're lucky you don't live in Montreal. Linda S. Pagani, Ph.D., of Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center and the Université de…

Okay, you're thinking a guy who started a site where scientists write feature articles directly to the audience must be insane to endorse big media science journalism, right?    Not at all…

Over at the Chronicle of Higher Education, Columbia University humanities professor Andrew Delbanco takes stock of recent arguments that the intellectuals are back in charge of government: What goes…

It's hard to avoid the omnipresent rhetoric being tossed around regarding the economy these days. Nearly everybody has an opinion on the state of our economy and how to fix it - and lately, on…

If you're a female science teacher, male students tend to underrate you.   Even worse, if you are a female science teacher in physics, both male and female students underrate you,  …

A study of college freshmen in the United States and in China found that Chinese students know more science facts than their American counterparts but both groups are nearly identical when it comes…

The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters today announced the results of a study showing that the United States' share of scientific research has shrunk while Asia-Pacific's share of output has…

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is getting a new president as well: Nobel laureate Peter Agre. He tells the New York Times that scientists need to get involved as…

The dying light of the George W. Bush presidency was marked by, among other things, a legislative move to derail recent gains in the federal government's opening of science. In particular, the…

Obama is playing good cop to Bush's bad cop, letting EPA know that his administration will not deny facts but be guided by them.Continuing efforts to overturn more of the last administration's…