ScienceDaily (May 10, 2010) — Zero tolerance policy in schools — which can mandate automatic punishment for weapons, drugs, profanity and various forms of disruptive behavior — is failing to make students feel safe, contends a new study by two Michigan State University researchers. The policy, established in the mid-1990s to address gun violence in [...]
Long a proponent of including nonscientific creationism in the biology curriculum, the Texas State Board of Education last week further illustrated its willingness to sacrifice accuracy for ideology by excluding Thomas Jefferson from a list of influential historical figures. Steve Mirsky reports The Texas Board of Education has long promoted the teaching of creationism in [...]
ScienceDaily (Mar. 2, 2010) — Some parents might see video games as an impediment to children keeping up with their schoolwork. James Gee, however, thinks video games are some of the best learning environments around. He says that if schools adopted some of the strategies that games use, they could educate children more effectively. "Commercial [...]
Parents in the US have accused a school of spying on children by remotely activating webcams on laptops. The school district says the laptops had a "security device". A couple from Pennsylvania have filed a lawsuit against a school district which gave laptops to its high school pupils. They say their son was told off [...]
Excellence in science education must begin in kindergarten Matt Collins Good science education at the earliest grades is supremely important, but in most classrooms it gets short shrift. Studies have found that children in kindergarten are already forming negative views about science that could cast a shadow across their entire educational careers. When researchers interviewed [...]
The 2010 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index asked teens who contributes the most to our society's well-being. (Credit: Lemelson-MIT Program) ScienceDaily (Jan. 29, 2010) — The nation is hoping for a bright future. Many believe the key to strengthening the U.S. economy and competing globally lies in fostering an innovative culture and educating America's youth in science, [...]
(PhysOrg.com) — NASA has launched a new Web site created specifically for teenagers that provides teens access to current NASA spacecraft data for use in school science projects, allows them to conduct real experiments with NASA scientists, and helps them locate space-related summer internships. Called "Mission:Science," the site is designed to showcase NASA's educational science [...]
WASHINGTON — Talented engineering students who have ideas on how future explorers might live on the moon could find themselves working at NASA as paid interns. The 2010 NASA Moon Work engineering design challenge seeks to motivate college students by giving them first-hand experience with the process of developing new technologies. To participate in the [...]
What Ails Public Schools? Better Ask, What Doesn’t? A shocking chronicle of institutional dysfunction, “The War on Kids” likens our public school system to prison and its disciplinary methods to fascism. At least now you know why little Johnny won’t get out of bed in the morning. Jeremy Carr/Spectacle Films A student at Columbine High [...]
As many as 340,000 children and teenagers are regularly bullied over the internet or on their mobile phones, according to a new report. The charity Beatbullying said young people experienced most abuse on the instant messaging service MSN and the social networking site Bebo. "We know the consequences of online bullying are just as traumatic [...]
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