Sandwalk

This is another post about a bad press release based on a lack of knowledge of the history of the field. Here's the press release ...

I discuss a recent editorial in Science that advocates expanding university education in order to prepare students for jobs. I believe ...

I was looking at the Vision and Change document the other day and it made me realize that very little has changed in undergraduate educatio...

A recent post by some anonymous blogger named "Darwin Quixote" made the following claim [see comment in: Be Careful, Evolution is ...

If students are going to learn critical thinking about evolution, they need to be exposed to controversial views and challenges concerning e...

Several people have asked recently if talk.origins still exists and if the TalkOrigins Archive is still functional. As it turns out, the cur...

I recently re-watched a program on The Agenda about high school education and what needs to be done to make it better. The broadcast was fr...

Today's version of the Toronto Star has several articles on kindness and empathy. The feature article appears on the front page of the ...

From Tressie McMillan Cottom at tressiemc [ The Audacity: Thrun Learns A Lesson and Students Pay ]. Sebastian Thrun, founder of Udacity, o...

Yesterday I attended a meeting organized by the Ontario Ministry of Education. The theme was From Great to Excellent: The Next Phase in Onta...

Another journalist has written about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). This one is in The New York Times : Two Cheers for Web U! . Most...

Thomas L. Friedman is the Op-ed columnist for foreign affairs at the New York Times . He has won three Pulitzer Prizes (1983, 1988, 2002). ...

Here's a notice from the BC Humanist Association. Recent secular victories in Chilliwack are at risk. On November 13th, the Board of t...

The Revisionaries is a documentary about the Texas state board of education and their attempt to suppress science in Texas public schools....

According to Careercast.com , I have the least stressful job of all jobs. 1 Here's how it's reported in Forbes magazine by web sta...

My friends and I were talking about the purpose of education over dinner on Saturday night. This video criticizes one side of the issue; nam...

The latest issue of Academic Matters has a provocative article by Ken Coates on The Quiet Campus: The Anatomy of Dissent at Canadian Univer...

I think that undergraduate education at most universities is done very badly. There are far too many courses that consist of professors givi...

A few years ago my university ( University of Toronto ) decided to take a look at student evaluations. A committee was formed and this was i...

Much to my embarrassment, the University of Toronto is promoting online courses, or MOOCs [ Online courses for anyone, anywhere ]. These cou...