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  • July 2008

    • Title IX Turns to Science: Where Are the Women Physicists?

      New York Times  |  Jul 15, 08 8:59 AM CDT

      Title IX Turns to Science: Where Are the Women Physicists?

      (Newser) - Title IX, the federal mandate that requires gender equality in education funding, has been applied mostly to sports teams, but recently a new push has begun to apply it to university science departments. Decrying a dearth of women in physics and engineering programs, some women's groups and members of Congress have called for compliance reviews. But reviews haven't yet turned up hard evidence of discrimination, the New York Times reports. More »

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      gender  • professor  • gender discrimination  • science education  • Title IX  • PhD

  • June 2008

    • Teacher Who Branded Students Fired

      Associated Press  |  Jun 21, 08 8:20 AM CDT

      Teacher Who Branded Students Fired

      (Newser) - An Ohio school board has voted unanimously to fire a science teacher who used an electrostatic device to brand 8th-graders with a cross, the AP reports. Science teacher John Freshwater, who says the marks were simply Xs, had been in trouble with the board before for teaching creationism, slamming evolution and other scientific theories, and keeping a Bible on his desk. More »

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      school  • teacher  • branding  • creationism  • science education  • middle school

  • March 2008
  • October 2007

    • Why US Math, Science Ed is OK

      BusinessWeek  |  Oct 26, 07 11:50 AM CDT

      Why US Math, Science Ed is OK

      (Newser) - Americans aren’t as deficient at math and science as usually reported, writes entrepreneur and Harvard Law Fellow Vivek Wadhwa in a Business Week op-ed. He cites an Urban Institute report with results contradicting many long-held beliefs about American science education, which places American science students consistently second in the world. More »

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      science  • education  • mathematics  • engineering  • science education  • Urban Institute

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