Science Education & Policy

Training The Intellectually Elite For The Big Leagues

If a school system overburdened by costs cuts drama programs, celebrities get on television and lament the loss.  Athletics gets support from boosters if their programs are in danger but if a gifted program goes on the chopping block, the presumption is & ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2011 - 5:28pm

Are Single-Sex Schools Better For Education?

The least convincing argument for government-run schooling is that it provides a 'social' experience for children.  Anyone who attended school has horror stories about the behavior kids learn from the social environment at schools and, if you are ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 27 2011 - 10:29am

Teach Facts Or Teach Thinking? Why NCLB's Demise Could Hurt Science Classes

Being in media, it's easy to get inundated with convincing opposing data and so it's easy to understand why it can be confusing for the public who don't have hours each day to sift through it all. Over a decade ago, for example, people were ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 4 2011 - 9:42am

EU Ph.D. Student Survey: The Results

To PhD or not to PhD? It seem this is a question many students face. Perhaps the results of the first Eurodoc Survey can help some of them with their decision. Eurodoc, or the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers, is an internati ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Oct 3 2011 - 11:08am

Increased Science Literacy Correlated To Less Worry About Climate Change

It makes environmental activists crazy, in that 'believe scientists when science agrees with us but scientists are out to kill us when science doesn't agree' kind of way, but a large study of U.S. adults found that the more science they knew ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 5 2011 - 11:25am

Blackboards in Porn

After writing, then discarding, a particularly snarky bit because it was too snarky for even me, I realized I am still due this week's entry.  Fortunately, to my rescue comes Blackboards in Porn! "Celebrating pornographers who go the extra mile w ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Sep 8 2012 - 2:38am

A scientific reference manual for US judges

Science and our legal system intersect frequently and everywhere- climate, health care, intellectual property, you name it. It wouldn't make much sense to hire an environmental lawyer for a case on medical malpractice, but what about the judge oversee ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Oct 11 2011 - 1:52pm

Coming Soon from a Science Festival Near You

In the last couple of years STEM organizations from across the nation have come together in an effort to engage the next generation in potential science and engineering careers. Gaining in popularity rapidly, local and national science firms have created s ...

Blog Post - Aimee Stern - Oct 13 2011 - 9:23am

A New School Of Thought

How do we learn best?   It depends on the individual! In the video below, Salman Khan is demonstrating what those of us in psychology, education, and intelligence research already knew: Everyone learns at a different pace, in different ways. And I'm ...

Article - Andrea Kuszewski - Oct 26 2011 - 10:06am

George Augustus Linhart- as a "widely unknown" thermodynamicist

The name of George Augustus Linhart is in fact "widely unknown". In effect, he was a Viennese-born USA-American physicist-chemist, partially associated with the Gilbert Newton Lewis' school of thermodynamics at the University of California ...

Blog Post - Evgeni Starikov - Oct 31 2011 - 11:46pm