Science Education & Policy

Optimizing Science Education And The Myth Of A Necessary 'Super Teacher'

In Optimizing The University- Why We Need a New Educational Model For A New Century I laid out some of the issues facing post-secondary science education and how changing student demographics and modern faculty responsibilities have exacerbated the challen ...

Article - Carl Wieman - Nov 5 2008 - 8:37pm

Unique Longitudinal Study Shows German Children Getting Fatter With Age

Fast food and coke instead of fruits and vegetables: the consequences can already be seen in children – more and more of them suffer from overweight and adiposity. But what are the reasons? In what way are they connected, for example, with social status an ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 23 2008 - 12:22am

Video Game Can Teach 'Business Experience', Say Developers

Business veterans claim you cannot teach ‘experience’ but a group of European researchers say you can. They developed software that helps players acquire real-life skills and realistic experiences through game playing. But this game is no executive toy. Th ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 23 2008 - 6:23pm

Troubled Kids Drag Down The Kids Around Them Also, Says Study

Troubled kids will always be a difficult area of social policy- in the 1980s the solution was thought to be introducing troubled kids to rural schools, but that tended to bring down the quality of the rural schools rather than raising troubled children up. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2008 - 3:20pm

NY Times on the Challenge of Teaching Evolution in Florida

Teaching evolution to a bunch of graduate students is easy; conveying something about evolution to a diverse group of high school students, some of whom have been coached to be openly hostile towards the subject, is a major challenge. Sunday's NY Time ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 22 2008 - 11:06pm

Tata Interactive Learning Forum To Provide A Business GPS For Navigating The Education Market

MUMBAI, India, August 26 /PRNewswire/-- The Tata Interactive Learning Forum (TLF) to discuss the convergence of technology in education and how technology will be impacting the market in the coming years Industry leaders believe that technology is transfo ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 26 2008 - 3:33am

Allied World Assurance Company Appoints Patrick De Saint-Aignan To Board Of Directors

PEMBROKE, Bermuda, August 26 /PRNewswire/-- Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, Ltd (NYSE: AWH) today announced the appointment of Patrick de Saint-Aignan to its Board of Directors. Mr. de Saint-Aignan has over 30 years experience in investment banki ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 26 2008 - 2:33pm

At Platts Energy Podium, EIA Chief Says Oil 'Could' Fall Below US$100

WASHINGTON, August 26 /PRNewswire/-- Crude oil prices "could" fall below US$100 per barrel over the next 18 months on slowing worldwide demand and an increase in oil production, Energy Information Administration (EIA) chief Guy Caruso said Tuesd ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 26 2008 - 5:30pm

Haier Will Build 51 Olympic Hope Schools

BEIJING, August 27 /PRNewswire/--- For Each of the 51 Chinese Gold Medals, Haier Builds a Primary School in China Haier, the world's fourth largest white goods manufacturer and the official white goods sponsor of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, will ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 27 2008 - 7:30am

School Reform Hampered By National Performance Versus Local Outcome Standards, Says Professor

Despite investments, community goodwill and some good ideas, a vexing question remains in the age of school reform: Why has so much hope and effort led to disappointment? Beginning in the late 1980s, the Chicago Public Schools, like many urban schools syst ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 27 2008 - 11:59am