Science Education & Policy

Prepare For Kindergarten, Prepare For Life

Children who had a successful first 10-14 weeks of kindergarten scored higher than others on tests of academic and social-behavioral skills at the end of the school year, according to a new demography paper. Important parts of the transition – what the sch ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2024 - 10:55am

CDC Regulations Stopped Everything Except The COVID-19 Pandemic

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, government health officials went to Congress to ask for more funding to help with Ebola. Prior to that they asked for more funding to help stop Teen Vaping. Prior to that they asked for more funding to stop the Prediabetes E ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 29 2024 - 7:48pm

Reduce School Violence By Eliminating Grades, Say Academic Psychologists

One of the few things that can get a government union employee in a mandatory industry like education fired is hitting a student. Yet the link between increased tolerance and less accountability for students has correlated to increased violence by teachers ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 27 2024 - 3:37pm

The End Of College Lectures?

Americans like to fix things.  We like to improve and we are convinced the future will be better, a subset of people who want to retreat into the world of the past aside(1), but nothing has changed little despite a century of being criticized like universi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 29 2024 - 9:40am

On Heisenberg: I'm Not The Only One Who Had So-So Grades

We don't have a lot of students reading here but if we did, I would tell them not to sweat the letter grades too much. You can be a 'C' student at Yale and be President of the United States. Heck, you can be an even worse student and be his ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 20 2024 - 3:21pm

Science Podcast Or Perish?

When we created the Science 2.0 movement, it quickly caught cultural fire. Blogging became the thing to do, to such an extent that corporate media entered with contracts for scientists while outlets like the BBC began to explore publishing user-generated c ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2024 - 10:09am

Want To Get Action On Climate Change? Show How Beer Is At Risk

It's not always easy getting people mobilized about the climate. I can't think of a single environmental or pollution issue in the last 40 years where someone did not say a new policy would kill their business. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2024 - 9:57am

Can World Hunger Ever Be Eliminated? Not Using Europe Or The UN

Wealthy countries with natural 'breadbaskets'- places where it is easy to grow food- have so much abundance they can put special labels like 'organic' on tens of thousands of products and charge more and people will spend $100 billion o ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 4 2024 - 10:07am

Sexism In Math Education: A Feminist Sociology Journal Finds Some

During the educational reform efforts of the No Child Left Behind Act, females achieved parity with males on math tests for the first time in history, yet stereotypes die hard.  Some people think females are just not as good at math.  Is there truth to it? ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 9 2024 - 8:22am

On Rating Universities

In a world where we live hostages of advertisement, where our email addresses and phone numbers are sold and bought by companies eager to intrude in our lives and command our actions, preferences, tastes; in a world where appearance trumps substance 10 to ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 18 2024 - 12:01pm