Education | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/education/ The best minds on the most important topics. Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:29:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Education | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/education/ 32 32 A Unique Technician-to-Engineer-to-Scientist Progression https://issues.org/navajo-tech-advanced-manufacturing-halliday/ https://issues.org/navajo-tech-advanced-manufacturing-halliday/#respond Wed, 06 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=46442 How Navajo Tech’s advanced manufacturing program fights brain drain from ancestral lands.

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]]> https://issues.org/navajo-tech-advanced-manufacturing-halliday/feed/ 0 A Century of Conflict Over Evolution Education https://issues.org/evolution-education-hundred-years-trial-scopes-branch/ https://issues.org/evolution-education-hundred-years-trial-scopes-branch/#respond Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=46422 In July 1925, a young science teacher named John Thomas Scopes was on trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for violating a recently enacted state law, the Butler Act. The law forbade public school… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/evolution-education-hundred-years-trial-scopes-branch/feed/ 0 It’s Time for Universities to Redesign Their 75-Year-Old Contract https://issues.org/universities-redesign-contract-crow-dabars-rosowsky/ https://issues.org/universities-redesign-contract-crow-dabars-rosowsky/#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=46466 American research universities have unleashed an age of massive technical innovation—but they’ve failed to innovate their own designs to meet the changing needs of society.

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]]> https://issues.org/universities-redesign-contract-crow-dabars-rosowsky/feed/ 1 K–12 Education in the Age of AI https://issues.org/k-12-education-ai-shuchi-grover/ https://issues.org/k-12-education-ai-shuchi-grover/#respond Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=45941 As powerful AI tools begin to affect our lives, what should learners and teachers understand in order to use them in ways that are empowering and equitable?

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]]> https://issues.org/k-12-education-ai-shuchi-grover/feed/ 0 Nurturing Deeper Ways of Knowing in Science https://issues.org/deeper-ways-knowing-science-carbajo/ https://issues.org/deeper-ways-knowing-science-carbajo/#respond Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:53:47 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44599 Efforts to diversify representation in science and engineering require initiatives that increase diversity of thought as well.

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]]> https://issues.org/deeper-ways-knowing-science-carbajo/feed/ 0 Don’t Rank Research Universities—Compare Them https://issues.org/compare-research-universities-brown/ https://issues.org/compare-research-universities-brown/#respond Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44619 Collectively, US research universities are the envy of the world. But they do make an unusual collection—a complex mix of public and private institutions pursuing different missions supported by a range of… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/compare-research-universities-brown/feed/ 0 How Some Universities Translate Inclusive Innovation Into Regional Growth https://issues.org/universities-inclusive-innovation-regional-growth-delgado-murray/ https://issues.org/universities-inclusive-innovation-regional-growth-delgado-murray/#respond Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44595 Positioning universities as hubs of inclusive innovation, particularly in less inventive places, can shift local workforce demographics and accelerate growth.

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]]> https://issues.org/universities-inclusive-innovation-regional-growth-delgado-murray/feed/ 0 Postdocs Demanding Better—Together https://issues.org/postdocs-unionization-columbia-cataldi/ https://issues.org/postdocs-unionization-columbia-cataldi/#respond Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44597 A successful unionization effort among Columbia University’s postdoctoral researchers tackles bullying and financial disparities so that researchers can focus on science.

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]]> https://issues.org/postdocs-unionization-columbia-cataldi/feed/ 0 When Oil and Gas Companies Go to School https://issues.org/oil-gas-companies-research-ethics-lieuwen/ https://issues.org/oil-gas-companies-research-ethics-lieuwen/#respond Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43615 Funding for university research programs by the oil and gas (O&G) industry is increasingly controversial in the United States. A 2023 Guardian article, for instance, described student “unease” upon learning that an… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/oil-gas-companies-research-ethics-lieuwen/feed/ 0 Educating Engineers for a New Nuclear Age https://issues.org/educating-engineers-new-nuclear-verma-snyder-daly/ https://issues.org/educating-engineers-new-nuclear-verma-snyder-daly/#respond Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=42838 Engineering education has long prioritized technical mastery above all else. And though such prioritization has equipped engineers with powerful analytical tools, this singular focus has left them unprepared to address some of… Read More

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