Science Education & Policy

Pediatric Cholesterol Guidelines For Young Adults Would Mean 400,000 More Statin Users

Sometimes guidelines cause people to be on medication who otherwise would not need to be. We have seen this concern due to runaway claims about the nebulous "pre-diabetes" diagnoses being discussed, and in commercials on television for prescript ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2015 - 9:23am

3 Myths About International Climate Talks

With only nine months to go before the most important international meeting on climate change since Copenhagen in 2009, what are the chances of success at this year’s Paris talks? What might “success” mean? And can the mistakes and challenges that have be ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 6 2015 - 6:00pm

Conservation Win: Hawksbill Turtle Numbers Up 200 Percent

An analysis of 22 years of data on hawksbill turtles in the Arnavons, located in the Solomon Islands, shows signs of recovery after 150 years of excessive hunting by natives. The data included both beach counts and turtle tagging data and show a 200% incre ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2015 - 1:53pm

Kindergartners Who Share Tablets Do Better On Achievement Tests

Using technology like tablets in schools has turned into a heated political debate. Los Angeles infamously spent $1.3 billion on a program to give iPads to each student, a program that has been plagued with problems. In the United Kingdom, the head of the ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2015 - 7:09pm

Virtual Money Puts A Price On Natural Ecosystem Services In Agriculture

Like virtual water and virtual emissions, looking at organic food through a prism of implicit benefits translated into estimated dollars makes it look a lot more economically viable than it otherwise might appear. The new estimate says that organic farming ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2015 - 3:12pm

Is Carbon Farming The Right Approach At The Right Price?

Climate change and the loss of biodiversity are two of the greatest environmental issues of our time. Is it possible to address both of those problems at once? In Australia, farmers and landholders will this week be able to apply for payments through the ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 15 2015 - 8:00am

Teachers More Likely To Label Black Students As 'Troublemakers'

Teachers are likely to interpret students' misbehavior differently depending on the student's race, according to a new paper.  Racial differences in school discipline are widely known, and black students across the United States are more than th ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2015 - 4:30pm

Sometimes Subsidies Are Needed: Sanitation Is One Of Those Times

Poor sanitation is linked to 280,000 deaths per year worldwide but it has lots of benefits besides just saving lives. That is why sanitation is a key policy goal in many developing countries. Strange sociological voodoo like a "community motivation&q ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 18 2015 - 9:48pm

The Art Of Teaching And The Science Of Instruction

Literacy has been getting declining support in recent years. The Obama administration only wants to spend $187 million for its Effective Teaching and Learning: Literacy initiative while the Bush administration had devoted $1 billion annually to the Readin ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2015 - 8:00am

Assessing Student’s Understanding of a Science Article Through Diagramming

The Need to Update the Article The purpose of trying to assess the understanding of my students on alcoholic beverages, unexpectedly led to the need to update the article they read. The Process ...

Blog Post - Camilo Tabinas - May 3 2015 - 9:26am