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How the science of vaccination is taught (or not) in US schools

The Hechinger Report

Other teachers tackle the controversy head-on. Lin Andrews, who taught biology for 18 years in Kansas public and private schools, said she would cite the (now-retracted) paper suggesting a link between autism and the MMR vaccine in order to show students how bias and poor data can creep into the scientific process. “By

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Where Americans Are — and Aren’t — Politically Divided on Education

ED Surge

Polikoff and his fellow researchers at the University of California, where he’s a professor of education, set out to find what Americans think about topics that have been roiled in controversy over the past several years. “A What’s the Point? But when it comes to the average American?

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