Science Education & Policy

Relax: Young Earth Creationists Can't Even Convince Other Christians They Are Right

So a young earth creationist museum put some dinosaurs in its advertising.  Ho-hum. While the atheist panic machine lumbers into action once again- after all, kids like dinosaurs, what if they go and learn not to steal and stuff while they are there?- ther ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 14 2012 - 5:30am

Changing Concept of University: 1946 to 2012

University of Rajasthan, which was the only university founded in the State of Rajputana in 1946 and is now known as Rajasthan, was meant for the entire Rajasthan population of around 20 million. Its constitution was framed in 1946 based on Gurukul philoso ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 16 2012 - 9:44am

$1 Per Student Per Class- The Future Of Education?

There's a lot of recent talk about open access in academia- taxpayers fund the bulk of academia in modern times so there isn't much benefit to a billion-dollar corporation charging a subscription fee for science research produced there. But the u ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 18 2012 - 2:24pm

Proposal: Two-Tiered Education Of 'Super League' Universities And Everyone Else

20 years ago in America, members of Congress, armed with studies showing that a college degree meant more lifetime earnings on average than a high school diploma, decided the way to boost income for everyone was to make sure everyone got a college degree. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2012 - 11:06pm

International Students: The UK Is Losing Out On The 'Best And Brightest'

It seems European countries are discovering the issue Science 2.0 has discussed about America for many years. Granting student visas and then denying them work ones after their degrees under the guise of job protectionism means educating the best people a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2012 - 5:30am

Political Science Is Not A 'Critical Part Of Our National Science Agenda'

Political scientists are in a panic because the US House of Representatives finally passed a bill which contains a line item eliminating National Science Foundation grants for political scientists. The Senate may vote soon also, though there are a lot more ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 25 2012 - 5:15pm

Higgs Discovery Exciting? We Could Have Found It First!

The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) was not too big to fail. Although it was a massive opportunity for the United States to maintain its primacy in high-energy physics and basic research, the SSC was not sufficiently big on the federal funding list b ...

Article - Michael Gamble - Jul 5 2012 - 3:46pm

The Tower Of Babel Inside Us All: Switching On Metalinguistic Awareness

In Basque, all you have to do is look at the verb to see whether the sentence has a direct object. Why not use that to learn the syntax of Spanish? If you already know how to form conditional sentences in Basque and in Spanish, why start from scratch to le ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2012 - 4:05pm

The Gender Issue: Girls Do As Well In Math But Suffer More Anxiety

In America, the last few years saw young females and males achieve math parity for the first time ever.  But girls are still anxious about math, and that has nothing to do with teachers or outreach or the oppression of a liberal democracy. Mathematics anxi ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2012 - 5:00pm

Teaching Inorganic Nomenclature(Part 2) to Non-Chemistry Majors: The 5-Step, 5-Cycle Teaching Model

According to Grossman and Loeb (2010),“the variation in teacher preparation pathways can propel understanding of how best to prepare teachers.” (p.22). Using this premise, I was able to synthesize the different pathways of actual teaching deliveries by th ...

Blog Post - Camilo Tabinas - Nov 12 2017 - 7:02am