Monthly Archives: August 2011

The President of MIT, Susan Hockfield, described the components needed for a successful manufacturing renaissance in the US in an op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times.

Florida Citizens for Science Jonathan Smith shared this nugget: The Los Angeles Times reported on a splinter Catholic group that continues to argue for a geocentric universe.  The group held a conference last fall near the Notre Dame campus in … Continue reading →

From The Independent: The executive chairman of Google has lambasted Britain as a society that favours “luvvies” over “boffins” and warned that unless it takes action to support science in education and business “the UK will continue to be where … Continue reading →

NY Times columnist, Princeton economic professor and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman mentioned in this morning’s column a survey by Public Policy Polling that shows that only 21% of Iowa Republicans believe in global warming and only 35% in evolution. Of … Continue reading →

Florida House of Representatives Education Committee Chair Bill Proctor, himself the Chancellor of Flagler College and a close associate of former FSU President T.K. Wetherell, threw some cold water on Governor Scott’s parade toward some of the more radical changes … Continue reading →

The Boston Herald and Silicon Valley technology executive Ze’ev Wurman say that the NRC K-12 Science Framework is too dumbed-down. Now a math educator and an Ivy League math professor (emeritus) are saying in the New York Times that the … Continue reading →

From Denise Balona’s story in this morning’s Sentinel: Gov. Rick Scott is exploring dramatic higher-education reforms that are similar to those already under way in Florida’s public school districts… Instructors would get annual bonuses as high as $10,000 a class … Continue reading →

Thanks to the Florida Legislature, class size limits on Precalculus and all AP and IB classes – including those in science and math – have been eliminated.  Class size horror stories are starting to reach me.  I’ll share the ones … Continue reading →

The Boston Herald has jumped into a nascent controversy regarding the new NRC K-12 Science Education Framework – and it’s not the one you would have expected. So far, there is no public argument regarding the inclusion of evolution in … Continue reading →

The first two paragraphs from the Post story: Four years ago in New Hampshire, campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination, John McCain said to voters, “I do agree with the majority of scientific opinion, that climate change is taking place … Continue reading →