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Geotimes
March 2004 |
Creationism in a national park Rangers in Grand Canyon National Park teach visitors that the Colorado River eroded the 2-billion-year-old sedimentary rocks to form the canyon roughly 6 million years ago. The park's Web site describes the Grand Canyo   |
Geotimes
August 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Muddling Science at Parks and Museums Exhibit disclaimers, along with other changes in parks and museums, could pose challenges to effectively communicating science to the public. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover Area School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design -- a religious theory -- as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional. |
Geotimes
February 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Geomedia Museums: Darwin's Life and Work on Exhibit... Books: Carving Grand Canyon: Evidence, Theories, and Mystery... Grand Canyon: Solving Earth's Grandest Puzzle... |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2012
Cori Vanchieri. |
Susan Singer: A Magical Moment The time to entice students to be STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teachers is during the first years of college, says Susan Singer, a professor of natural sciences at Carleton College. |
Geotimes
February 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design (ID) as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional. Just two weeks after the decision, schoolboard members voted to remove ID from its curricula. |
Geotimes
September 2005
Nisbet & Nisbet |
Evolution & Intelligent Design: Understanding Public Opinion Tensions in American society over religious and scientific accounts of human origins are centuries old, and the divide between the two contending worldviews continues today as part of an escalating political conflict over science education. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Megan Sever |
Evolution Battles Rage School districts in Pennsylvania and Georgia are challenging evolution theory in the classroom, and now the courtroom. |
Geotimes
April 2005
Linda Rowan |
Creationism: Back in Kansas Again Unfortunately, a brief history of the creationism movement over the past 80 years suggests that the debate has not been resolved, but rather the movements in Kansas and elsewhere are subtly changing tactics to try to gain the same objective. |
Geotimes
September 2003
David Applegate |
Opposition to Evolution Takes Many Forms A 1987 Supreme Court decision forced evolution opponents to reassess their approach and seek alternative strategies that would not run afoul of the constitutional wall of separation between church and state. In the intervening years, two such strategies have emerged. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Cori Vanchieri |
Jo Handelsman: Engage to Excel How to keep STEM students from jumping ship? |
Geotimes
November 2004
Megan Sever |
More Challeneges to Evolution In three states this week, battles rage on about the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools. |
Wired
June 2006
Mark Robinson |
Intelligent Decision Excerpts from Kitzmiller v. Dover School District trial regarding whether intelligent decision should be incorporated into school science curriculum... Websites that won't stop until the truth is out there... |
Geotimes
December 2004
Megan Sever |
Review of Creationist Book Shelved The Department of the Interior has yet to reach a decision on the sale in Grand Canyon National Park of a book that tells a biblical story of the creation of the Grand Canyon. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2012 |
Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students. |
Geotimes
September 2003
Megan Sever |
Textbook battle over evolution Now that the Texas board is considering 11 biology and science textbooks for adoption and use in its 2004-2005 school year, the evolution debate has once again erupted in Texas and around the country. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Dan Ferber |
Calling All Teachers This article focuses on preservice training -- training college students and graduates to be STEM teachers. |
Salon.com
May 4, 2001
Fiona Morgan |
Louisiana calls Darwin a racist The state Legislature casts him in the same league as Hitler. A science educator says it's going to be a rough year for evolutionists... |
National Defense
December 2013
Maggie Heyn Richardson |
New Hub For Training Cyberworkers Emerges in Northern Louisiana Louisiana Tech University is a designated Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency and major defense contractors are located at the The National Cyber Research Park in Bossier City. |
Geotimes
October 2005
Megan Sever |
Evolution Battles Continue The battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools in the United States reached a fervor this week, as a number of prominent scientists testified in an ongoing court trial that pits evolution against intelligent design. |
Scientific American
October 2008
Sally Lehrman |
The Christian Man's Evolution: How Darwinism and Faith Can Coexist A geneticist ordained as a Dominican priest, Francisco J. Ayala sees no conflict between Darwinism and faith. Convincing most of the American public of that remains the challenge. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
September 1, 2005
Humphrey Taylor |
Back Page: Evolution? It's Not Right! The Religious Right is likely to influence the future of medicine, healthcare, and medical research. |
National Defense
March 2012
Edward Swallow |
Rep. Mike Honda Introduces Bill to Boost STEM Education The chairman of the National Defense Industrial Association's Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Workforce division spoke to Rep. Mike Honda, D-Calif., regarding a bill he recently introduced, the STEM Education Innovation Act. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012 |
President's Letter: Critical Thinking Though our efforts to improve the training of STEM teachers and students are modest in the big picture, we hope the work becomes an amplifying mechanism. And with new initiatives coming out of our science education group, we plan to have an even bigger influence on STEM education in this country. |
Outside
July 2008 |
Grand Canyon Rafting Photo Gallery Epic shots of the Grand Canyon taken while rafting down the Colorado River. |
Outside
January 2006
Kate Siber |
Grand Canyon Under Glass Arizona's Hualapai tribe is opening a glass-bottomed, horseshoe-shaped walkway that will jut 70 feet from the edge of the Grand Canyon's south rim, 4,000 feet above the canyon floor. |
National Defense
August 2010
Cynthia D. Miller |
Classroom Perspective: Teachers Speak Out About STEM Three science, technology, mathematics and engineering teachers in different education systems talk about their efforts to attract students to these fields. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Michelle Withers: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist I create learning activities so students come up with their own answers. I need to figure out what questions will get them there. How can I guide them to figure it out? |
Wired
October 2004
Evan Ratliff |
The Crusade Against Evolution In the beginning there was Darwin. And then there was intelligent design. How the next generation of "creation science" is invading America's classrooms. |
IndustryWeek
October 19, 2011 |
High Unemployment and Few Qualified Candidates? It's a Teachable Moment Bayer MaterialScience's efforts to promote STEM education are elementary - and much more. |
Geotimes
November 2003
Megan Sever |
Evolution to stay in Texas texts On Nov. 7, the months-long debate over how evolution would be presented in high-school biology textbooks in Texas came to a head: Evolution is here to stay, in its entirety. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2, 2008
Matt Sullivan |
Adam Savage's Plan to Banish Boring Science Education & More Adam Savage discusses everything from No Child Left Behind to the evolution debate in America's schools |
National Defense
January 2016
Stew Magnuson |
More Learning, Less Testing to Boost STEM The defense and aerospace workers of the 21st century will need more than expertise in STEM fields. They will need to be creative, critical thinkers, and they will need to know how to work in teams to solve problems. |
Salon.com
February 28, 2001
Larry Arnhart |
Assault on evolution The religious right takes its best scientific shot at Darwin with "intelligent design" theory... |
Geotimes
February 2004
Megan Sever |
Georgia: evolution on the mind Over the past month, evolution has been back in the news. In an 800-page draft of Georgia's educational standards released for public comment in January, the word "evolution" had been removed from the biology curriculum. |
CIO
September 14, 2012
Gary Beach |
Time to Pay It Forward for Better Educated IT Workers The author knows American students lag behind other countries in STEM and thinks McKinsey's 'Closing the Talent Gap' report may be on to something. Is it time we incentivize our best students to forgo the private sector for jobs in public education? |
IndustryWeek
September 14, 2011 |
Wanted: Talent-Driven Innovation Can the United States meet the challenge of creating the skilled workforce needed for manufacturing leadership? |
National Defense
December 2010
Cynthia D. Miller |
JETS Promotes Engineering, Math To U.S. High School Students Though science, technology, engineering and math education is receiving a lot of press today, there have been organizations dedicated to the advancement of the fields for many decades. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2, 2009
Ruth Reynard |
5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best Face-to-face instruction is often assumed to be the proven method, while other methods have yet to prove themselves. This assumption is not only misleading, but it might also be helping to diminish potential opportunities of better learning for our students. |
Geotimes
July 2003
Robert Spoelhof |
The Not-So-Retired Life At retirement, geologist Robert Spoelhof finally learns what he wants to be when he grows up. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 1, 2009 |
Drill Down As smart phone usage rises, applying the devices in education grows imperative. |
Scientific American
October 2006 |
Let There Be Light Science and faith can coexist happily as long as neither tries to take on the functions of the other. |
National Defense
March 2011
Cynthia D. Miller |
National Science Foundation Supports STEM Education Of equal importance to the foundation is the support of science and engineering education, from pre-kindergarten through graduate school and beyond, with a variety of fellowships and programs specifically for teachers and students. |
National Defense
September 2010
Mark Russell |
One Company's Approach to Solving the Nation's STEM Dilemma Raytheon understands how to analyze complex systems in a comprehensive manner. These analysis techniques can be applied to the education problem of producing enough technology and engineering graduates. |
Geotimes
September 2003
Megan Sever |
Evolution debate continues in Texas At a public hearing on Wednesday, people on both sides of the ongoing evolution debate duked it out over how the topic should be covered in Texas high school biology textbooks. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 17, 2010
David Nagel |
Snapshot: Students Want Online Learning High school students seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of online instruction as a component of their educations. |
National Defense
November 2009
Cynthia D. Miller |
Institute Strives for National STEM Education Network How do we create our next generation of scientists and engineers? It takes an individual who has classroom experience, vision for the future and sheer determination to find it. |
Information Today
January 8, 2009 |
Nature Education Launches Free Educational Resource--Scitable Currently focused on genetics, Scitable combines authoritative scientific information with social media functionality. |
National Defense
May 2013
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Industry, Academia, Government Grapple With Dwindling STEM Workforce The problems associated with a weak STEM applicant pool can threaten national security, some experts have said. In response, industry, academia and the government have funneled millions of dollars into STEM-education initiatives. But the numbers aren't budging. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 1, 2009 |
Drill Down Administrators report on the obstacles they encounter in the effort to provide students with take-home technologies. |
