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  1. Re:Is it worth it? by gorgon · · Score: 1 · on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch

    In the 1500s neither scientists nor other educated people believed the Earth was flat. This is a myth. It had been proven long before that the earth was round. Here are some links to get you started or do a search yourself.

  2. Re:Magic Vs. Technology by Glock27 · · Score: 1 · on Spider Robinson And The State Of Science Fiction
    OK, I did your Google searching for you

    Here is more.

    If that wasn't enough, let me know...there is plenty more disgusting evidence out there.

  3. This is the same Joy Hakim... by Daniel+Rutter · · Score: 5, Informative · on A New Approach to Teaching Science
    ...who's had a starring role a few times on The Textbook League's site. The Textbook League's basic purpose is to point out the large number of textbooks that say things that aren't, you know, true.

    The operator of the League site, Bill Bennetta, posted on the Skeptic list today on this subject. He said he was interviewed for the Washington Post piece, and gave the journo various straightforward examples of Hakim's deception in her previous books. This got edited down to "Even amid all the acclaim, one textbook group accused Hakim of writing in errors."

    Actually, the League didn't "accuse" her of anything; they darn well proved it, so far as I can see. But who's ever going to be able to check for themselves, while the League is anonymised as "one textbook group"?

    Well, here are the references the Post doesn't want you to see. Check 'em out here, here and here (a search reveals a few more, too).

    Basically, Hakim gets stuff wrong, and just loves calling her own religious beliefs "history". Other people's don't get the same treatment.

    Maybe she'll be just great at inspiring kids with the majesty and humanity of the scientific endeavour, tra la. Her past work doesn't bode well, though.

  4. This is the same Joy Hakim... by Daniel+Rutter · · Score: 5, Informative · on A New Approach to Teaching Science
    ...who's had a starring role a few times on The Textbook League's site. The Textbook League's basic purpose is to point out the large number of textbooks that say things that aren't, you know, true.

    The operator of the League site, Bill Bennetta, posted on the Skeptic list today on this subject. He said he was interviewed for the Washington Post piece, and gave the journo various straightforward examples of Hakim's deception in her previous books. This got edited down to "Even amid all the acclaim, one textbook group accused Hakim of writing in errors."

    Actually, the League didn't "accuse" her of anything; they darn well proved it, so far as I can see. But who's ever going to be able to check for themselves, while the League is anonymised as "one textbook group"?

    Well, here are the references the Post doesn't want you to see. Check 'em out here, here and here (a search reveals a few more, too).

    Basically, Hakim gets stuff wrong, and just loves calling her own religious beliefs "history". Other people's don't get the same treatment.

    Maybe she'll be just great at inspiring kids with the majesty and humanity of the scientific endeavour, tra la. Her past work doesn't bode well, though.

  5. This is the same Joy Hakim... by Daniel+Rutter · · Score: 5, Informative · on A New Approach to Teaching Science
    ...who's had a starring role a few times on The Textbook League's site. The Textbook League's basic purpose is to point out the large number of textbooks that say things that aren't, you know, true.

    The operator of the League site, Bill Bennetta, posted on the Skeptic list today on this subject. He said he was interviewed for the Washington Post piece, and gave the journo various straightforward examples of Hakim's deception in her previous books. This got edited down to "Even amid all the acclaim, one textbook group accused Hakim of writing in errors."

    Actually, the League didn't "accuse" her of anything; they darn well proved it, so far as I can see. But who's ever going to be able to check for themselves, while the League is anonymised as "one textbook group"?

    Well, here are the references the Post doesn't want you to see. Check 'em out here, here and here (a search reveals a few more, too).

    Basically, Hakim gets stuff wrong, and just loves calling her own religious beliefs "history". Other people's don't get the same treatment.

    Maybe she'll be just great at inspiring kids with the majesty and humanity of the scientific endeavour, tra la. Her past work doesn't bode well, though.

  6. This is the same Joy Hakim... by Daniel+Rutter · · Score: 5, Informative · on A New Approach to Teaching Science
    ...who's had a starring role a few times on The Textbook League's site. The Textbook League's basic purpose is to point out the large number of textbooks that say things that aren't, you know, true.

    The operator of the League site, Bill Bennetta, posted on the Skeptic list today on this subject. He said he was interviewed for the Washington Post piece, and gave the journo various straightforward examples of Hakim's deception in her previous books. This got edited down to "Even amid all the acclaim, one textbook group accused Hakim of writing in errors."

    Actually, the League didn't "accuse" her of anything; they darn well proved it, so far as I can see. But who's ever going to be able to check for themselves, while the League is anonymised as "one textbook group"?

    Well, here are the references the Post doesn't want you to see. Check 'em out here, here and here (a search reveals a few more, too).

    Basically, Hakim gets stuff wrong, and just loves calling her own religious beliefs "history". Other people's don't get the same treatment.

    Maybe she'll be just great at inspiring kids with the majesty and humanity of the scientific endeavour, tra la. Her past work doesn't bode well, though.

  7. Feynman on Textbook Selection by Michael_Burton · · Score: 5, Informative · on A New Approach to Teaching Science

    In his autobiograpical book Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, physicist Richard Feynman wrote about his service on the State Curriculum Committee, which selected textbooks for California schools. There is an excerpt from the book here.

  8. MS Security and government services? by Dannon · · Score: 2 · on Security as a Profit Center?

    Security is like public health and education

    Isn't MS's security already at least as good the quality of teaching in our government schools? ;-)

  9. Minimal-competency testing by Animats · · Score: 2 · on Scientific Elites vs. Illiterates
    But imagine a world in which teaching in high school is such an attractive profession that it would be worth the trouble of a doctoral level education to get the job.

    Doctoral-level education is overkill. Requring that teachers be able to pass the College Board's Advanced Placement Exam in physics is probably good enough. That exam, after all, is intended for bright high school students. Teachers at the middle school level and above should be able to pass it.

    High school physics should be Newtonian and experimental. The classic PSSC Physics still gets good reviews.