Picture this: enterprising students in cities in Texas, particularly, and other cities nationwide – along with counterparts in Romania, which just mandated a Creationism-only science curriculum (I kid you not), and maybe Turkey, for good measure – organize Smart Mobs to strike, peacefully and simultaneously, out of the blue to demand only 21st century science [...]

From the “We Don’t Need Four Ten More Years” Department: This is serious, and an opportunity for some net-roots experimentation that could be fun. So let’s talk the problem first, then possible solutions: 1. Creationists at it again The Houston Chronicle reports that a majority in the Texas Board of Education is likely to vote [...]

NCLB as a potential world epidemic To riff off an old saw, “When America sneezes, the world catches a cold.” This is beyond obvious when we think of the Iraq invasion, the refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol, and countless other examples. Less obvious, though, are the effects of American education policy on the world. [...]