Science Education & Policy

California Cellphone Ban Hasn't Decreased Accidents

California is the home of bans in the United States, everything from Happy Meals to golf courses and goldfish have come under fire. Sometimes the bans pass, and it is always cheered as 'leadership' when that happens. Social authoritarians in oth ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2014 - 4:04pm

You Don't Stop Learning To Read In 4th Grade- Study

Teaching remains more art than science and a popular conjecture that has caught the attention of the education business has been that fourth grade is when students stop learning to read and start reading to learn.  People love to swap terms around that wa ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2014 - 6:32am

The Emerging GMO Labeling Patchwork

Activists unable to get the U.S.federal government to enact any law regarding labeling of genetically modified foods have successfully pushed for their own versions in a handful of states. But the resulting patchwork may create bigger headaches for the fo ...

Blog Post - Brandon T. Bisceglia - Jul 24 2014 - 10:12am

Welfare Vourchers For Farmer's Markets May Boost Produce Consumption For Half Of People

Vouchers to buy fresh fruits and vegetables at farmers markets increase the amount of produce in the diets of some families on welfare, according to a new paper in research in Food Policy which suggests that farmers market vouchers can be useful tools in ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2014 - 10:30pm

How To Create More Physics Teachers

A new paper by the Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) has identified two factors that characterize sustainable university and college programs designed to increase the production of highly qualified physics teachers. Specifically, one or more f ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2014 - 6:30pm

US Nuclear Energy Is Safe- Will The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Listen?

A new National Academy of Sciences (NAS) assessment examining the causes of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident affirms the culture of safety adhered to by the U.S. nuclear industry. Core findings from the NAS study, “ Lessons Learned from the Fuku ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2014 - 9:18am

First Grade Reading Suffers In Minority Neighborhood Schools

Beginning in 1969, a court decision, motivated by a lack of racial integration in schools, led to students being shipped to schools in other neighborhoods. As part of a political campaign against Richard Nixon, his political opposition latched onto this f ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2014 - 3:23pm

Teach For America Efforts Show School Board Politics Alive And Well

Teach For America is a group that recruits recent college graduates to teach in poorer public schools for two years, the idea being that they would be better than substitute teachers in those districts. Education unions dislike the organization and call t ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2014 - 10:59am

4 Warning Signs That Impartial Paper On Politics And Science Really Isn't

Talk of a 'secret sauce' in decision-making and charges that government groups like the Environmental Protection Agency are politically motivated are not new. Every president has its opposition party contending that the administration is manipul ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 25 2017 - 4:39pm

Bipartisan House Bill H.R. 5183 Will Reduce Costs Of Medicines For Chronically Ill

The current government in Washington, D.C. may be dysfunctional but they still get together on some things. H.R. 5183, the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) for Better Care Act of 2014,could improve the health of patients with chronic illness while redu ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2014 - 2:30am