Norman Edmund’s Educational Blog

The March 2006 issue of TD (Training and Development Magazine) has an article by Tom Peters. I like his statement:
There’s a Darwinian-sounding quote I like. It says something like, “It’s not the most intelligent that survive. It’s not the biggest that survive. It’s those that are most able to adapt and change.
I’m worried about our […]

Integrity requires adherence to a code of moral, accurate, and honest values and method. The integrity of knowledge presented to the public requires that it must be true as near as truthfulness can be obtained. That is, “on the evidence available today the balance of probability favours the view that. . . ” (V. Gordon […]

There’s an article in the March-April issue of the Journal of College Science Teaching on “Moving Research into the Classroom” by biology professors from a service academy. In spite of some effort on my part, the Journal of College Science Teaching hasn’t admitted that the scientific method exists. I suspected that the article would […]

Meeting participants often must make decisions on complex, important problems. Discussions can wander all over the spectrum. To get order, just furnish each participant with a copy of The Scientific Method Today. Start at ingredient one and have a little discussion on observations about the problem. Then go on to ingredient two and present the […]

ACT has issued a new report that says only about half of our nation’s ACT-tested high school students are ready for college-level reading. This seems to be a good report. It is available online at ACT’s website. It shows that African Americans and Hispanic Americans fare worst in the test. The report doesn’t mention it, […]

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. They sure did this for me. When I published my book End the Biggest Educational and Intellectual Blunder in History I knew that many publications wouldn’t review it because it revealed the biggest educational and intellectual blunder in history in […]

While many states are requiring students to pass algebra to graduate from high school, there are plenty of people who oppose it.
Professor Gerald Bracey has spoken out against this practice for years. In his column in the March/April issue of Teacher, Ron Wolk, founder of Education Week and Teacher magazine speaks out against too much […]