Welcome to ...

The place where the world comes together in honesty and mirth.
Windmills Tilted, Scared Cows Butchered, Lies Skewered on the Lance of Reality ... or something to that effect.


Thursday, February 3, 2011

Science Education in the US is Startlingly Bad

science-education-bad-united-states.jpg
Image: Telegraph
The apparently sagging quality of the American education system is a topic of much debate. Most of us are aware that our place as one of the world's preeminent educators is slipping -- but the decline is especially sharp in the subjects of math and science. Miller-McCune has a piece on why this may be. It contains nuggets like this: "Only 28 percent of teachers consistently present the evidence for evolution as a unifying theme in biology, as the National Research Council recommends". Wooops.
Read the whole piece over at Miller-McCune.

No comments: