Science Education & Policy
- Next Generation Science Standards- Implementing Goals For 2020 And Beyond
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A new report by the National Research Council offers guidance to schools on necessary steps for putting the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) into practice over the next decade. Next Generation Science Standards were drawn from A Framework for K-12 ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2015 - 1:34pm
- Academia's Dark Arts- Why Journals Must Do More To Tackle The Problem
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Academic wizardry. Shutterstock By Nick Butler, Lund University and Sverre Spoelstra, Lund University ...
Article - The Conversation - Jan 9 2015 - 12:22pm
- Headache Management Needs A 21st Century Update
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Over 12 million Americans visit their doctors annually complaining of headaches and the real costs and estimates of lost productivity could be up to $31 billion annually. What might help more people without spending more money? Fewer tests and some counse ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2015 - 4:27pm
- Get Kids To Eat More School Lunch By Putting Recess Before Lunch
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Some kids and school districts have objected to the Obama administration's efforts to change lunches to be fare they prefer. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act changes have led to worries by advocates for the poor that kids whose best meal of the day w ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2015 - 1:31pm
- Dr. John Holdren Reconciles The 1970s Ice Age With Today's Global Warming
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In late 2008, the euphoria over electing a man who specifically said he wanted to put science back in its rightful place began to fade. The president-elect, it seemed, preferred the company of UFO believers, an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and a guy wh ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 13 2015 - 7:38pm
- Outsourcing: 3 Ways To Stop Medical Research Brain Drain
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Throughout the 20th century, medical research and public health science was primarily done by corporations- the United States, with 5 percent of the population, generated more than 50 percent of the money and a whole lot more of the science. No more. Medic ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 28 2015 - 11:25am
- If There Is An Anthropocene Epoch, When Did It Begin?
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The debate over policy implications of climate science can have no clear winners- everyone claims science is on their side and that scientists on the other side are misguided. Though both sides are experts at framing- CO2 is good for us in any quantity, sk ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2015 - 11:17am
- Global Warming And The Strange Case Of Disappearing Environmental Issues
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Shutterstock By Justin Lewis, Cardiff University ...
Article - The Conversation - Jan 15 2015 - 2:00pm
- Climate Change Is Not The Biggest Risk To Global Health
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Poverty causes more deaths than climate change. Otis Historical Archives, CC BY By Andrew Papworth, University College London ...
Article - The Conversation - Jan 15 2015 - 4:00pm
- Free Community College Is Good For Students But Not America
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Can the promise of free community college be delivered? President Obama at Pellissippi State College in Knoxville, TN Kevin Lamarque/Reuters By Donald E. Heller, Michigan State University Last week, President Barack Obama announced a proposal to guarantee ...
Article - The Conversation - Jan 18 2015 - 8:30am
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