Science Education & Policy

Science Education: Who’s to Blame? Accountability in the Teaching and Learning Process

Accountability plays a very important role in the realization of educational aims, goals, and objectives. Thus recognizing the “Who is/are” in its formation and/or its implementation is important. They are the local and international educational agencies, ...

Blog Post - Camilo Tabinas - Feb 18 2014 - 2:13pm

How And When Children Learn Reason And How To Think About Others

Two new studies explore the development of reasoning and perspective-taking in young children. How to Pass the False-Belief Task Before Your Fourth Birthday ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2012 - 11:45pm

Xenophobia Upside: Ethnic And Religious Diversity Correlated To Less Environmental Action

When is diversity a bad thing?  When it comes to environmental action, according to a new paper from  the University of East Anglia (UEA).  Scandinavian countries, low in ethnic and religious diversity, take more collective action than more diverse nation ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 20 2012 - 4:30am

Geo-Engineering For Global Warming Needs International Laws With Teeth

Though you can't put science data to a vote, the policies based on science are for the public to decide. Until a global policy is in place, scientists and organizations can easily circumvent international laws regarding geo-engineering by getting dom ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2013 - 3:30pm

“Promised Land”: A Love Letter To Longmont

Promised Land is not a movie about “ fracking ”, you will be sorely disappointed if you go to the theater expecting to see lurid visuals of sinister-looking waste water ponds, plumes of diesel soot and road dust, or bucolic landscapes scarred by roads and ...

Article - Mark Brownstein - Jan 8 2013 - 12:29pm

The 10 Worst Food Regulation Proposals You May Have Missed In 2012

The anti-biology community that has created the Big Organic $29 billion corporate juggernaut is not as creepy as the anti-vaccine community who distrust medical science- anti-vaccine people want your kids to be experimented on so theirs can stay safe from ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 5 2013 - 1:25pm

Washington State Initiative 522- The GMO Warning Label Battle Rages On

Despite losing in the state with arguably the most anti-science crackpots in its citizenry- California- GMO activists in arguably the second most anti-science state- Washington- are determined to show the country why they should be number one. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 27 2013 - 6:29pm

The Call To Make Science Less Partisan Gets New Members

Since 2007, on too many occasions to count, I have noted that by being overwhelmingly partisan scientists in academia are putting themselves at risk. Not financially. If funding mattered, all scientists would vote Republican- when it comes to funding, Repu ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 9 2013 - 4:30am

Science Of Learning: Which Study Strategies Really Make The Grade?

Students everywhere, put down those highlighters and pick up some flashcards! Some of the most popular study strategies, like highlighting and even re-reading, don't show much promise for improving student learning, according to a new paper. In the a ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2013 - 2:06pm

Too Fat Or Too Thin: Weight Extremes In The Developing World

While the developed world gets all of the attention for obesity, the developing world is only different in one sense; they retain more severely undernourished people even while obese and overweight people in those countries are gaining weight. Unless peop ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2013 - 1:00pm