Monthly Archives: December 2022

Do students from disadvantaged backgrounds in Florida have a fair shot at earning Bright Futures scholarships and being admitted as new high school graduates to the state’s public universities? Two articles published in the Orlando Sentinel this month by reporters … Continue reading →

For all but a few exceptional students, the road to a bachelor’s degree in a STEM field is at least nine years long. The typical student starts taking challenging math classes (starting with Algebra 1) in middle school, and then … Continue reading →

In a somewhat unhinged opinion piece in the the Tampa Bay Times this week, Tarpon Springs High School Cambridge Literature/General Paper teacher Chris Fulton made “fixing our broken K-12 public education system once and for all” easy. The piece was … Continue reading →

Which college majors pay best and worst during early and mid-career? Which ones are most and least underemployed? Here we show the top 25 in each of those categories, as compiled by the New York Fed in February, 2022. Just … Continue reading →

Making STEM fun is great, but eventually students who aspire to careers in science or engineering must learn science (including physics) and math (including calculus) with understanding, and that is not always fun. In fact, it can be quite frustrating. … Continue reading →

A goat has crashed the FSU Physics Department’s second annual “Cutest Pet” contest. The contest, open to pets of students, faculty and staff members in the department, is decided by the votes of the same members of the department – … Continue reading →

I’m a member of a committee of low energy nuclear physicists (that is, physicists who work on atomic nuclei at relatively low energy scales) that is writing a brief white paper on educating nuclear scientists. As every regular reader of … Continue reading →

The biggest news in STEM education this year was the release of the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) math results. Nationally, students lost a considerable amount of ground. But in Florida, there was celebration over the state’s continuing … Continue reading →