{"id":183,"date":"2006-04-11T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/11\/speaking-of-science-education\/"},"modified":"2006-04-11T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T09:00:09","slug":"speaking-of-science-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/11\/speaking-of-science-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Science Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a note related to the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/story_is_a_force_of_nature.php\">previous entry<\/a>, Inside Higher Ed had a <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/04\/07\/wieman\">longer story about Carl Wieman<\/a> leaving Colorado for Canada (following in the footsteps of his post-docs?), another guy putting his money where his mouth is:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>First, he contributed $250,000 of his Nobel Prize award to the Physics Education Technology Fund supporting classroom initiatives at CU-Boulder. He hoped it would prompt other donations, but the momentum never materialized.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, during his sabbatical, Wieman wrote 35 proposals for funding for teaching projects. All he got was one small grant from the National Science Foundation to develop computer simulations. &#8220;That probably triples the unsuccessful proposals for physics research I&#8217;d written in my entire career,&#8221; Wieman says. &#8220;It seemed like I was somewhat na\u00c3\u00afve in thinking I could get more resources and attention to have a reasonably large impact in this area.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really have much to say about this that I haven&#8217;t said before, but I thought it was worth passing on the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a note related to the previous entry, Inside Higher Ed had a longer story about Carl Wieman leaving Colorado for Canada (following in the footsteps of his post-docs?), another guy putting his money where his mouth is: First, he contributed $250,000 of his Nobel Prize award to the Physics Education Technology Fund supporting classroom&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/11\/speaking-of-science-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaking of Science Education<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,33,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-in_the_news","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}