{"id":5973,"date":"2012-01-03T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T07:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/01\/03\/links-for-2012-01-03\/"},"modified":"2012-01-03T07:30:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T07:30:56","slug":"links-for-2012-01-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/01\/03\/links-for-2012-01-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2012-01-03"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2011\/12\/ff_causation\/all\/1'>Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us | Magazine<\/a>\n<p>For &#8220;Science&#8221; read &#8220;Medical Science&#8221; throughout, but other than that, it&#8217;s a good discussion of the problem of biological complexity.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/nepc.colorado.edu\/publication\/teach-for-america'>Teach For America: A Review of the Evidence | National Education Policy Center<\/a>\n<p>Teach For America (TFA) aims to address teacher shortages by sending graduates from elite colleges, most of whom do not have a background in education, to teach in low-income rural and urban schools for a two-year commitment. The impact of these graduates is hotly debated by those who, on the one hand, see this as a way to improve the supply of teachers by enticing some of America&#8217;s top students into teaching and those who, on the other hand, see the program as a harmful dalliance into the lives of low-income students who most need highly trained and highly skilled teachers. This policy brief offers a comprehensive overview of research on the TFA program.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/energy\/39397\/?p1=A3'>The Year in Materials &#8211; Technology Review<\/a>\n<p>2011&#8217;s progress in science with actual practical applications.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us | Magazine For &#8220;Science&#8221; read &#8220;Medical Science&#8221; throughout, but other than that, it&#8217;s a good discussion of the problem of biological complexity. Teach For America: A Review of the Evidence | National Education Policy Center Teach For America (TFA) aims to address teacher shortages by sending graduates&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/01\/03\/links-for-2012-01-03\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2012-01-03<\/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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973","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=5973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}