A Proposal for State Legislatures to Pursue Impartial Audits of the Scientific Basis for Evolution as the State Teaches it in its High Schools, Colleges, and Universities

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward H. Sisson
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
State Legislatures ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
The State

scholarly journals Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education and Teaching Based on “Internet+” Research and Exploratio

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Hongyan Pei
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
State Council ◽  
The Times ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

<p>In order to promote mass entrepreneurship and innovation, the General Office of the State Council issued the implementation opinions on deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform in institutions of higher learning. According to the guidelines for innovation and entrepreneurship proposed by the State Council, colleges and universities should combine the entrepreneurial needs of students and the innovative needs of the society, set up educational goals around the orientation of running a school, and carry out educational reform activities with innovation and entrepreneurship as the theme. Based on the overall social background of "Interne+" and distinct characteristics of the times, this paper analyzes the problems existing in innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities, and explores effective strategies for implementing innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities.</p>

Foreign Language Offerings and Enrollments in Public High Schools

PMLA ◽  
1955 ◽  
Vol 70 (4-Part2) ◽  
pp. 52-56 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
State Department ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Public High Schools ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
State Department Of Education

The Accompanying table gives the most recent data obtainable on the extent to which foreign languages are offered and studied in public secondary schools in the United States. The last national survey was made by the U. S. Office of Education in 1948–49, and comparisons are made with the results of this survey to show the subsequent gain or loss in each state for which more recent figures could be obtained. For some states the data are incomplete because the state department of education does not know, and apparently does not care to find out, what the pupils in the high schools are currently studying. In seventeen states, the information existed only on reports filed by each high school, and it was assembled through the help of foreign language teachers who went to the state department of education and spent days tabulating the reports.

MAKING MONEY BY MAKING BABIES

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 599-599
Author(s):  
J. F. L.
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Artificial Insemination ◽  
State Legislatures ◽  
Single Women ◽  
The State ◽  
State Health ◽  
Surrogate Mothers ◽  
New Business

The State of New York may be eager to attract new business, but there's one kind of inflow it would do well to avoid. According to state health officials, New York is fast becoming "the surrogate-parenting capital of the nation." New York accounts for some 40 percent of the several thousand surrogate parenting contracts signed so far in the nation, and the number is rising ... At least 17 state legislatures have decided it's harmful commerce, and forbidden it. So have Germany, France, Britain and a slew of other countries. But not New York . . . That's why advertisements like this one appear in New York newspapers: Married or single women with children needed as surrogate mothers for couples unable to have children. Conception to be by artificial insemination. Please state your fee. Contact ... For those who want children, infertility can be a tragedy. Allowing this kind of commerce, however, would be a greater one.

“To Spread Throughout the Land, an Army of Practical Men”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Dorn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
The State ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
Agricultural College ◽  
The Common

This chapter discusses the emergence of a social ethos of practicality in higher education by the end of the nineteenth century. Throughout the antebellum era, the expansion of scientific and technical knowledge joined with the rise of political populism to lead existing institutions to add practical studies to their curricula. Many advocates of practical studies, however, were not satisfied with simply incorporating courses or appending schools to already-established colleges and universities. They sought to break with tradition by establishing a new kind of higher-education institution, one that would teach students scientific and investigative principles while also requiring the application of those principles outside of the classroom, both on the farm and in the field. This new institutional type would contribute to the common good by being unprecedentedly accessible and affordable to agrarian and laboring youth. The chapter then looks at the establishment of the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan.

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