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This is Citizen Jack’s book, a masterful demonstration of a personal view turned sociopolitical gold. —CHARLES R. AULT JR., Professor Emeritus, Lewis & Clark College Discover the truth about the Trump years with Citizen Jack's gripping and detailed account in The Trump Files. Renowned science educator, researcher, blogger, and author Jack Hassard vividly documents the nation's turbulent Trump years and brings readers back to those troubling days. Through sharp, clear-eyed prose, he takes on racial injustice, the Trumpist worldview, and how science was diminished in the Trump era. The ...

In this eBook, we explore the question why do we teach science? The reasons for teaching science are not as clear as one may think. Much of the reform going on right now does not address the question directly. What one has to do is examine the goals of a particular curriculum or reform report, and then infer what the authors would say if asked, why do we teach science in the first place? In Part I, we use a model developed by R. Stephen Turner to explore four arguments including the economic argument, the democratic argument, the skills argument, and the cultural argument. In part two of ...

The Enigma of High-Stakes Testing in Science is an eBook published by the Art of Teaching Science. This eBook is based on blog posts that were written over the past few months. The content of this eBook is based on the position that high-­‐stakes testing, which are used to make life-­‐changing decisions about students, teachers, and schools, should be banned from use in making life-changing decisions affecting students, teachers, or schools. Research evidence is provided in 21 articles that are presented here, and organized into five parts. The intent is to provide information that ...