Science Education & Policy

The Publisher's Pushback Against NIH's Public Access And Scholarly Publishing Sustainability

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 innocuous sounding “Fair Copyright in Research Works Act” ...

Article - John Willinsky - Jan 27 2009 - 12:40pm

New AAAS President to Scientists: Stop Complaining and Step Out of the Lab

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 citizens is they are concerned about good science policy: Q. R ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 27 2009 - 11:19am

Despite Slight Decline, U.S. Still 32 Percent Of World Science Output

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 risen but the U.S. remains the leader globally in ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2013 - 4:27pm

Science Facts Are Not The Scientific Method

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 to their ability to do scientific reasoning- unfortunately ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2009 - 5:30pm

Gender Bias In Rating High School Science Teachers, Says Study

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,  according to a study of 18,000 biology, chemistry and physics students ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2009 - 1:08pm

What's In The Economic Recovery Bill For Scientists?

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 President Obama's economic stimulus package in general ...

Article - Chris Rollins - Feb 5 2009 - 5:37pm

Critical Thinking Skills- The Cure For Anti-Intellectualism

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 on here? Was the historian Richard Hofstadter wrong in hi ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 24 2009 - 12:18pm

Science Journalism Is Not Dead- And It's Not Bad

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.  Science journalism is a different beast than what we do here ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 25 2010 - 3:59pm

Comparative Effectiveness: What Is It And Why Should We Care?

The hot buzz word in the health care reform sector is "comparative effectivness research," and the lay press is picking up on the partisan rumblings in Washington over this provision in the recent stimulus legislation. But what is CE research, a ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Mar 2 2009 - 9:21pm

Rambunctious Kid? It May Lead To Gambling, Drug Use And Depression, Claim Researchers

Did you ever get called impulsive by a teacher?   You're lucky you don't live in Montreal. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2009 - 9:47pm