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).
A recent opinion piece in the Washington Post declared “U.S. universities have lost sight of their core task….It’s time for higher education to get back to educating the workforce of…
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” by referencing…
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…
A recent opinion piece in the Washington Post declared “U.S. universities have lost sight of their core task….It’s time for higher education to get back to educating the…
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” by referencing Social-Emotional Learning and…
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,…