Science Education & Policy

Big Cosmetic And Sen. Dianne Feinstein Go After Your Handmade Soap

What do you have when someone declares that organic food should be separate from USDA oversight but organic soap should have special oversight if it is not made by a large corporation? A California politician. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 14 2015 - 12:37pm

Learning Styles-Based Education- The Child as the Central Focus

"If the child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way [he] learn[s]"  - Ignacio Estrada, Facebook Post Learning styles-based education (LSBEd) places the child as the center of education. Learning Styles-Based Education ...

Blog Post - Camilo Tabinas - May 2 2019 - 8:41am

Why The Uproar Over Unjust Teacher Evaluations Is A Sham

Recently, Sheri Lederman, a 4 th   grade ...

Article - Cevin Soling - May 15 2015 - 1:23pm

The Challenges Of Scientific Publishing: A Conference By Elsevier

I spent the last weekend in Berlin, attending a conference for editors organized by Elsevier. And I learnt quite a bit during two very busy days. As a newbie- I am handling editor for the journal "Reviews in Physics" since January this year- I di ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 18 2015 - 10:28am

Argument: Offset California's Water Crisis With A Levy On Inefficient Farms

It's not a secret that organic farms trade modern science for inefficiency in production and higher profit margins- but that does not count the 'intangibles' that go into organic farming, argue Terry Anderson and Henry Miller, and those high ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 18 2015 - 3:52pm

Not All Genetic Scientists Are Against GMO Labeling

Some Americans may regard the half of U.S. science that works in academia as overtly partisan due to a lack of political diversity, but it doesn't affect science issues. Though the anti-vaccine, anti-GMO and anti-energy movements are overwhelmingly po ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 22 2015 - 2:14am

Index Of School Readiness Highlights Importance Of Family Support

The U.K. government has indicated that it wishes to introduce testing for all children at Reception (when they first enter school at age four) this year. These tests seek to provide baseline assessments of a child’s ‘school readiness’ but teacher unions ha ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2015 - 8:30am

UN Sustainable Development Goals Are Discriminatory And Ageist

One of the main health targets proposed by the UN Sustainable Development Goals is to reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases such as cancer, stroke and dementia by a third. The goals for 2016-2030 define "premature" mortality a ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2015 - 3:24pm

Nutrition: Credentialed Providers Have Greater Knowledge

Nutritionists take a lot of criticism- conferences that revolve around Yogic flying instructors and actresses who think their breast milk has "otherworldly power" will do that to your field, but there is at least one way to know if someone knows ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2015 - 8:00am

Data Underlying U.S. Dietary Guidelines Flawed- Or Not

U.S. government-issued dietary recommendations continue to evolve over time but a new paper by scholars claims that the main source of dietary information used by the U.S. Government’s 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) is scientifically fla ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2015 - 10:30am