education

I'm wondering what you all might think is the most effective path for arts education to take in the public school sphere. The aesthetic, arts for arts sake approach has been and continues to be the dominant philosophy in most arts ed, especially in music. I was certainly brought up and trained...

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One of the best hopes for Afghanistan's future lies in the education of its young men AND women. The Taliban knows this, hence the following: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0121/p99s01-duts.html

My daughter is in eighth grade, currently taking Algebra I and "General Science". The eighth grade science curriculum is sort of a overview of chemistry (atomic structure, states of matter, ionic and covalent bonding, acid/base, periodic table) and physics (motion, electromagnetism, optics and...

My interest in Maths has been re-awoken* after lying dormant for around thirty years and I'm looking for cheap (free!) resources to re-educate myself. One of the problems I have is that I'm not sure where to start, having probably forgotten a lot of what I once knew about the subject. Maybe some...

So today I popped up the road to the local shopping centre to start on the Xmas shopping, and to my delight I found that CERN (which is just down the road) were exhibiting there. The best part was one of their blokes doing a lengthy demonstration of the fun things you can do with liquid...

A friend sent me this rather cool educational website on the brain from McGill University: The Brain From Top to Bottom. Complete with learning modules at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, on topics ranging from evolution to language to sleep to mental illness. (apologies if this...

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/12/pope.france.secular.ap/index.html OK, how many times we saw this sort of argument? Can he back it? I say no. Not to mention that I fail to see religion creating a "basic ethical consensus within society". I think nowadays religion has a great...

It would appear that the Director of Eduction at the Royal Society is in favour of covering Creationism in science classes. I think he is being naive - the Creationists will take this as a victory; what do you think?

As we all probably know, Louisiana recently passed an "academic freedom" law which would allow science teachers to "supplement" their curriculum with materials providing alternative views on biology (i.e. creationism). Of course, who was one of the major backers of said legislation? Our fine...

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Religious furor over scripture interpretation Cedarville University is a nonprofit private religious unversity of the Baptist persuasion, located in Cedarville OH. Recently, it has been the site of 'theological controversy'. Cedarville has been regarded as orthodox/"fundamentalist" since the...

I just finished reading The Rise Of Christianity by the sociologist Rodney Stark Here are some quotes for you that you might enjoy from his section The Appeal Of New Religions (p. 37-44):

Hi all, I've recently become quite interested in the dissection of so-called 'psychic abilities'. I have always been an atheist, and never believed in the supernatural, but only recently (mainly thanks to Robert Lancaster's excellent site) I have become more passionate about seeing psychics...

Howdy all, At Claus's suggestion, I decided to start this thread to pose a few questions concerning a proposed "unofficial" workshop at TAM6. There seem to be a decent number of teachers on these boards who want to some kind of explicit teacher-oriented workshop at TAM6; however, due to time...

I'm seriously considering the Science and the Public Masters Degree from the Univ. of Buffalo. My interests are to be a better science communicator and understand how best to present science information to all education levels. This program just got accredited so it seems on better footing than...

Specifically I'm wondering how things like the American War of Independence or Civil War are taught outside of America. Now the War of Independence did involve a lot of countries so I'd imagine it'd have to be covered to some degree but I'm curious as to how extensively it's covered and what the...

Didn't know whether to put this in Education or Religion, so like most people I just dumped it here. I've been having a discussion on my work forum about RE in the UK, and I'm not sure where we stand in this country. I was surprised at the first post, but it seems the OP may be correct. Is...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/ I just heard a trailer for a news item that will appear at the 7:30 slot on the above site, later today. In the trailer, they said that a Professor of Education had brought out a book that gives teachers advice on how to handle Creationism in Science classes...

Where I live, they've been struggling mightily in the major cities to figure out why it is the public schools here are such disasters. They've done studies, called in outside "experts," gone to the parents, and every governor and city mayor for at least the past decade and a half has called...

I can understand the uproar over Churchill, Hitler, Gandhi, and others being cut from school curriculum, but is there a reason Wilberforce shouldn't be taught? I realize he's not as historically significant as the others, but Randi's commentary left me with the suspicion that Wilberforce was...

This thread is for the discussion by the students in the Skeptikids Club (who will be posting their OP shortly). They are posting here to get advice on paranormal subjects they are studying as a group of young skeptics. They will only be posting at JREF under supervision and in moderated...

Hi everyone. Next semester I'm going back to college part time. I will need to take some physics and chemistry classes. It's a long story, but I never took either in high school, which was 10 years ago anyhow. Can anyone recommend any books that are good for taking someone from square 1...

I have to rant about some obscure social custom here in Japan that has long outlived it's usefulness. It's called the Bell Mark, and what it is a system in which food companies put a little mark on their package labels, which indicates a bell and a number of points, often one or 1.5, which can...

Perhaps this should be in Education, so I may duplicate this question there. I am helping my wife on the logistical aspect of writing her PhD. She is very near completing the proposal portion, but in compiling the bibliography she discovered the lack of proper citations for some items...

Another thread was sidetracking, so I start this thread now. Medicine should be taught in schools. Drugs should no longer require a prescription. Why? Teaching medicine would help alleviate health costs and increase the health of a population. Free drug trade is a the only way to avoid the...

Yesterday my 11 year old daughter came home from school in Melbourne Australia telling me that her teacher told the class that bad words and negative thoughts directed at a bottle of water would make it taste bad while good thoughts and even positive messages on a sticker put on a bottle would...

...using the criteria of amount of time committment, the % of undergraduates who finish and don't switch majors, and the GPA of an average student in the major. I'm interested in peoples' opinions because I'm switching majors and feel too clueless about differences in difficulty among these.

Not their poll ratings but on education policy: Nearest I've seen to a policy statement by the Conservatives for some time. It is interesting in that it moves them closer to the traditional Labour position so makes it harder to distinguish the parties by their policies. At this rate we will...

I just caught the last bit of today's show whilst at home on my lunch break. It seems that she is talking about teaching religion in public schools.