Despite claims by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Obama administration that gaining more control over school choices will lead to healthier kids, school-based schemes to…

First Lady Michelle Obama may mean well, but overturning school lunch policy based on the beliefs of someone who was paid $300,000 per year to do community outreach for a university wasn't really…

There are growing inequalities in health and wealth among Americans, a gap between "haves" and "have-nots" that has become obvious as the American middle class has been decimated in the ongoing…

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Writing instruction in U.S. classrooms is "abysmal" and the Common Core State Standards don't go far enough to address glaring gaps for students and teachers, a Michigan State…

The advent of science blogging in the early- and mid-2000s meant people needed things to write about - and people generally want to live in important times. That meant exaggeration, hysteria and…

Samuel Arbesman and K. Brad Wray, 'Demographics and the fate of the young scientist', Social Studies of Science April 2013 vol. 43 no. 2 282-286 doi: 10.1177/0306312712470218

http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2013/01/08/science_has_always_b... The mythology of the super-rational, completely impartial scientist is promoted by scientists - but it has probably done…

Science scores are up among students and two-thirds of students have a decent grasp of science.  That sounds pretty good, right? If you are in the 'education stinks so let's give it more money'…

Science is hard.  Because it is hard, the people teaching it should not be determined by how long they have been in a union.  In 1980, the same percentage of teachers voted for Jimmy Carter…

if you are reliant on government funding, you put yourself out of business http://skirsch.com/politics/globalwarming/ifrQandA.htm Why wouldn't this be valid? It is the exact same logic activists use…