Instead of School’s Industrial Culture, Students Need the Freedom to Learn
For the past 13 years, American schools have endured a rebirth of an “industrial culture” that is the product of “mechanistic age thinking,” described in-depth by Russell L. Ackoff (public library) in...
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Science Ideas Have a History: The Case for Interdisciplinary Thinking
Latest Story Figure 1. How was this tool used to “discover” the background radiation made by the Big Bang? In a piece published on the Chronicle of Higher Education, Alejandra Dubcovsky, professor of...
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Science is a Way of Thinking: So, Why Do We Try and Standardize it?
Figure 1. Carl Sagan and the Universe. Copyright sillyrabbitmythsare4kids, Creative Commons Science has been prominent in the media recently. Stories and programs including the Bill Nye-Ken Ham...
View ArticleGeorgia Teachers Continue to Impress: 2014 CRCT Results in Context
Latest Story In this post I am going to show why I think Georgia teachers continue to impress, especially when we look at the 2014 CRCT results in the context of the past decade. In the wake of the...
View ArticleAtlanta Take Note: There is New Science Educator Intown!
Latest Story Ed Johnson sent an email out a few days ago in which he described the kinds of experiences that students at a local elementary school might experience if the school took advantage of its...
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