Historian - Civic Educator
My work addresses the intersection of science learning, US history, and the democratic promise of liberal education. Executive Director of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement — Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Div. Q).
In April 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis defended rejecting 41 percent of the state’s submitted math textbooks—the highest rate in state history—citing “indoctrination” through references to Social-Emotional Learning and Critical…
In April 1948, the sociologist Robert S. Lynd published a review essay in The Journal of Higher Education as a response to the 1946 Truman…
In her 1997 Presidential Address at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of the Advancement of Science, Jane Lubchenko called for a “new social…
In April 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis defended rejecting 41 percent of the state’s submitted math textbooks—the highest rate in state history—citing “indoctrination” through references to Social-Emotional Learning…
In April 1948, the sociologist Robert S. Lynd published a review essay in The Journal of Higher Education as a response to the 1946 Truman Commission’s landmark report,…
In her 1997 Presidential Address at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of the Advancement of Science, Jane Lubchenko called for a “new social contract” for science: the…