Superior night and welcome to our Final version of “This 7 days at DE” for 2020! My title is Paul Ilse and I’m the CEO of Discovery Instruction. It has been this sort of a satisfaction receiving to observe these movies each 7 days and I’m thrilled to serve as our […]
Year: 2020
Arecibo’s Collapse Sends Dire Warning to Other Aging Observatories
The U.S.’s famed Arecibo Observatory survived all manners of threats due to the fact its development in a bowl-formed normal sinkhole in the forested hills of Puerto Rico in 1963. It persisted via almost everything from hurricanes and earthquakes to wild swings of the federal budgetary scythe. That history manufactured […]
New Partners Join the STEM Careers Coalition to Support STEM Teaching & Learning
The STEM Professions Coalition – the initial-of-its-sort nationwide STEM initiative driven by corporate leaders and anchored in faculties by Discovery Schooling – marked its initial anniversary by welcoming new customers to the escalating coalition and by presenting educators, students, and people nationwide entry to a host of new, no-cost electronic sources. The array of […]
These Nine Women Should Have Key Roles in the New Administration
President-elect Joe Biden is commencing to announce nominees to popular science positions in his administration. As the U.S. grapples with the outcomes of the past 4 several years of the Trump administration undermining science and harming by now marginalized teams at each flip, it is critical that the Biden workforce […]
Readers Respond to the August 2020 Issue
In “The Biomass Bottleneck,” Eric Toensmeier and Dennis Garrity address the approach of drawing down billions of tons of carbon dioxide by using biomass for power and carbon seize. Their examination concludes that the amount of money of biomass necessary would go away the world with inadequate arable land to […]
Endless Creation Out of Nothing
Astronauts explain the emptiness and darkness of space far from Earth as a startling practical experience. So did the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, in a poem e-mailed to me by writer Dror Burstein. With out ever getting ventured into house (naturally), Rilke wrote a century ago: “Night, shuddering in my […]
Eye Treatment Stretches Mouse Sight Beyond Visible Spectrum
Exhausted of obtaining to achieve for your night-vision goggles when you want to observe someone’s warmth signature right after dark? Very well, biotech may someday come to the rescue for all of you aspiring spies. Mainly because scientists have produced an injectable, nanoscale antenna, which they’ve used to allow for […]
Corrigendum to “Educationalisation of youth unemployment through lifelong learning policies in Europe”, 2020
Valiente O, Capsada-Munsech Q, de Otero JPG (2020) Educationalisation of youth unemployment by way of lifelong finding out procedures in Europe. European Instructional Investigation Journal. Epub ahead of print 23 February 2020. DOI: 10.1177/1474904120908751. Following the publication of this post, the authors noticed that the funding information were being lacking […]
Itsy-Bitsy 3-D Spider Web Is as Strong as Human-Made Materials
Wallabies, kangaroos, koalas—Australia is household to organisms found nowhere else on Earth, a attribute that extends from furry mammals all the way to the basket-web spider. Element of what would make this this arachnid so distinct is in its name. Normally termed the “lobster pot spider,” the species Saccodomus formivorus […]
Digital technologies in policy assemblages in Ireland and Norway: A visual network analysis
Introduction Education policy is becoming more digitalized as digital technologies increasingly facilitate the real-time collection, distribution and circulation of student data required to govern education today. The education policy literature has studied the use of student data by engaging in studies of ‘governance by numbers’ – where school inspections, reform […]
The politics of educational transitions: Evidence from Catalonia
Alexiadou, N, Helgøy, I, Homme, A (2019) Lost in transition: Policies to reduce early school leaving and encourage further studying in Europe. Comparative Education 55(3): 297–307. Google Scholar | Crossref Atkins, L (2017) The odyssey: School to work transitions, serendipity and position in the field. British Journal of Sociology of […]