Skeptophilia

'Tis the season for school budget votes, when school districts find out how much they're going to have to cut from the instructional...

I know how to fix the educational system. It's so simple, I can even put it in a bulleted-list form.  Here's what you do: Short...

It's late February, and if you're a teacher, you know what that means: Time to start worrying if you'll have a job next year. ...

One of the first rules of handling data that students learn in science classes is the concept of "significant figures."  Although ...

Whenever I think that the battle over teaching creationism in the public schools can't get any more bizarre, it does. The smarter anti...

You would think that, after spending 26 years as an educator, I would have figured out that whenever an educational oversight group says, ...

I've been an educator for 26 years.  During that time, I've handed out, proctored, and graded more quizzes and exams than I would ev...

Yesterday I ran across a story that is mostly remarkable because of the last paragraph. Entitled " Odd Rock Covered in Unidentified H...

This time of year is always a difficult one in public schools -- and it has little to do with it being March, a month with no three-day week...

Well, here we go again. Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, director of the National Center for Science Education , has once again put rationalist Ameri...

A couple of days ago, the Washington Post ran an op-ed piece by David Bernstein entitled, " Why Are You Forcing My Son to Take Chemist...

I fear for the future of education. I am about tennish-or-so years from retirement, depending on whether New York State decides in the int...