Rise of the Science Ph.D. Dropout New study says scientists are leaving academic work at unprecedented rate. By Colleen Flaherty, December 11, 2018 The “half-life” of academic scientists has shortened dramatically over time, says a new paper calling attention to the “rise of the tempo

Looking Bright The Harvard psychologist says he is no starry-eyed optimist. It’s just that the data don’t lie. Steven Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard University, maintains that by objective measures the world is heading in the right direction.CreditKayana Szymczak for The

educationtoday blog What’s the best way to teach science? By Tarek Mostafa Analyst, OECD Directorate for Education and Skills, 19 Nov 2018 02:51 AM PST Education experts have spent the last 50 years debating over a seemingly simple question: what’s the best way to teach science? On on