{"id":96592,"date":"2009-12-22T15:49:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T20:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/?p=5680"},"modified":"2009-12-22T15:49:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T20:49:36","slug":"good-review-of-unscientific-america-from-aps%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cforum-on-education%e2%80%9d-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/96592","title":{"rendered":"Good Review of Unscientific America from APS\u2019s \u201cForum on Education\u201d | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Art Hobson, an Emeritus physicist at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, has <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.org\/units\/fed\/newsletters\/fall2009\/hobson.cfm\">reviewed our book<\/a> for the American Physical Society&#8217;s educational forum, and it seems he liked it. A quote:<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">Summarizing its prescription, the book&#8217;s final chapter states &#8220;We must fundamentally change the way we think and talk about science education,&#8221; and this means rethinking the education of <em>scientists<\/em> as well as the public school and college education of non-scientists. &#8220;We don&#8217;t simply need a bigger scientific workforce: We need a more cultured one, capable of bridging the divides that have led to science&#8217;s declining influence. \u2026We must invest in a sweeping project to make science relevant to the whole of America&#8217;s citizenry.&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t agree more.<\/p>\n<p>You can read Hobson&#8217;s full review <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.org\/units\/fed\/newsletters\/fall2009\/hobson.cfm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MXF70va6XlSk78679fRxDcgbWCg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MXF70va6XlSk78679fRxDcgbWCg\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MXF70va6XlSk78679fRxDcgbWCg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MXF70va6XlSk78679fRxDcgbWCg\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/7jnRKlKSswE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Hobson, an Emeritus physicist at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, has reviewed our book for the American Physical Society&#8217;s educational forum, and it seems he liked it. A quote: Summarizing its prescription, the book&#8217;s final chapter states &#8220;We must fundamentally change the way we think and talk about science education,&#8221; and this means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}