EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
ARPA-Ed and the Future of Education Innovation
First DARPA, then ARPA-E, now… ARPA-Ed? On Wednesday the Senate HELP committee will discuss whether or not to create a new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Education.
SCIENCE EDUCATION
Attacks on Science Education Intensify
Attacks on climate science in schools aren’t just interferences with teaching, they prepping young minds to make the kinds of emotionally driven argumentative responses that make our public discourse at the national level so fruitless.
STEM EDUCATION
Women Missing Out on High-Paying STEM Jobs
Women working in science, technology, engineering, and math professions are outnumbered by men 3-to-1 despite a lower wage gap in those fields, says a new Commerce Department report.
STEM EDUCATION
Slow Off the Mark
To download the pdf of this report, click here, or scroll to the bottom for more options. You can’t throw a stone without hitting a STEM initiative these days, but most science, technology, engineering, and math initiatives—thus the STEM acronym—overlook [...]
SCIENCE EDUCATION
Casualties in the New Science Wars: The Nation’s Children
The convergence of interests of evolution and climate change deniers signals a new chapter in the politicization of science.
EDUCATION
The Words Tell the Story
While touting the goals of competitiveness and job creation, the “Pledge to America” ignores innovation and education as systemic prerequisites for sustainable economic growth.
SCIENCE EDUCATION
We Invest in Research, But What About Teaching?
The structural incentives of the academy are in general stacked in favor of research and against high-quality science teaching.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate Change Preps for Its Scopes Trial
Legislators in South Dakota seem bent on becoming anti-science pioneers. After a century of anti-evolution policies and legislation across the United States, the South Dakota legislature is set to become the only one in the nation to micromanage what teachers say about global warming.
SCIENCE, CULTURED
Is the Science Glass Half Full, or Half Empty?
The latest figures on the relationship between science and the U.S. public can be used to support either a positive or a negative perspective.
The Top Science Progress Features of 2009
In 2009, we saw a renewed engagement with ethical questions about how we regulate biotechnology, watched the conservative war on science continue on new fronts, and witnessed renewed commitments to grow U.S. prosperity with investments in science and technology. Timeline: [...]
SCIENCE CAREERS
Voting with their Wallets
Although the numbers of young Americans studying science, technology, engineering, or math in high school and college are as strong as ever, the very best of those students are less likely than in decades past to stay in STEM fields when they leave college.
SCIENCE CAREERS
Get a Life
Researchers with families need more than childcare. They need a culture of professional assessment that looks for their contributions as teachers, scholars, and citizens—not just an unrelenting rate of work.
SCIENCE CAREERS
Time for Family, Time for Science
A significant proportion of American women leave scientific careers between earning their Ph.D. and winning tenure-track positions. Many of these “leaks” in the pipeline are the result of decisions to start families. Changes to federal and university policy can stem the losses, say the authors of a new report.
SCIENCE, CULTURED
What’s Wrong with U.S. Science Education?
U.S. science education occurs in the context of an American culture that has very deep problems with science—problems that are manifested in many spheres other than the educational system, but are certainly reflected there, too.
The Digital Textbook Case
Abel Real attributes his transformation from likely high school dropout to nursing student at East Carolina University to classroom technology. Real, a self-proclaimed success story from poverty-stricken Greenville, North Carolina, shared his experience with a school laptop program that introduced [...]
SCIENCE, CULTURED
Great Scott
It’s about time everyone is celebrating Eugenie C. Scott of the National Center for Science Education—she is, after all, perhaps the leading day-to-day defender of science in America.
Women (and Diversity) In Science
In a Washington Post editorial today, Christina Hoff Sommers argues that President Obama’s suggestion that Title IX—which requires equal funding for men’s and women’s school athletics programs—could be used to advance parity for women in science and engineering fields should [...]
INNOVATION
Making Robots Personal
Science Progress talks with Tandy Trower, general manager of Microsoft’s robotics group, about the future of robotics in the United States and around the globe.
INNOVATION
Robots to the Rescue
How can you design the products of tomorrow and create the innovations that will keep the country advancing if you don’t learn how to make anything? Robots can help.
Data Bank: Career Paths for Science Grads
As Chris Mooney points out in today’s column, many science graduates are choosing career paths that lie outside academia. This is in part because the career paths within academic science are narrowing, but it is also because the importance of [...]
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