#education
# politics
If we're going to meet the challenges of the future, we're going to need a plan and that plan starts with education...
# education
Companies need colleges to educate their next generation of workers. Yet they're refusing to work with them, or even train their employees for that matter.
# education
Studies about America's supposed shortfalls in STEM education have been taken at face value for years. But a thorough review casts doubt on their methods and conclusions.
# politics
What used to be known as skeptical blogging has lost the skepticism and gained a lot of tabloid style drama and cultural think pieces.
# tech
Coding is a useful skill, but some Silicon Valley luminaries are tackling their mission to teach kids how to write apps with a little too much zeal and overly rosy stats.
# oddities
Just because we can track people in real time for whatever reason we want, doesn't mean we should, or let those who overstep sane bounds off the hook.
# politics
Companies are becoming so unreasonably picky that management experts and consultants are alarmed. Potential employees should be too.
# science
Everybody seems to want more STEM majors, scientists and highly trained engineers. But nobody seems to want to pay for them.
# tech
The flip side of technophobia and lamentations about the dehumanizing effect of gadgets? Trying to force everyone to code and insisting it's a vital skill, like literacy.
# education
We're ignoring the fact that the professors who teach future generations are in deep financial holes and can't seem to get out.
# evolution
Creationists expect science to tell them soothing tales about their place in the universe. That's just not going to happen.
# education
It's one thing when a digital mob goes after you when you do something worthy of criticism. But what happens if it descends on you for succeeding?
# education
Accommodationist philosopher Michael Ruse is now seriously defending the citizens of Tennessee voting on science and facts.
# science
How much are we actually willing to pay for future innovations in science and technology? And not in a figurative way...
# tech
Exposing kids to coding is a great idea. But it's important not to force them into programming as a career while they're still young.
