Our Schools Make Criminals

Darwinism and Indoctrination by Our Public Schools

an agency formally charged by society with the task of socializing the young in particular skills and values. We usually think of the school as being mainly concerned with teaching skills and knowledge.... But the schools in every society also engage in outright indoctrination in values. We may find this fact more readily apparent in societies other than our own ... the school socializes ... th...

Make Fuel Efficiency Our Gulf Strategy

Smoking in Ontario schools: does policy make a difference?

OBJECTIVE Studies in other countries have shown that school tobacco control policy has potential to prevent smoking uptake in adolescents. Since no Canadian research has studied this association, we assessed the statistical link between school tobacco policy and smoking status in Ontario elementary and secondary schools. METHODS We conducted secondary analysis of data collected using the Scho...

Confidence and Corrections: How We Make and Un-Make Up Our Minds

Single neurons in several brain areas intervening between sensation and action signal the accumulation of sensory evidence favoring a particular behavioral response. Two new studies show that these same neurons encode decision confidence and that decision makers continue to process relevant sensory information even after a choice has been made.

Discussion- Improving Educational Quality: How Best to Evaluate Our Schools?

While the academic debate has been preoccupied for much of the last decade with school vouchers, state policymakers have been moving in a very different direction, constructing elaborate incentive systems using school-level test-score measures. For instance, California spent nearly $700 million on school-level incentives in 2001, providing bonuses of up to $25,000 per teacher in schools with th...