In this article, Akihisa Setoguchi discusses the history of biology in Japan in terms of three generations of historians defined by their relationship to Darwinism from 1909 to 2009. Specifically, he focuses on their respective assessments of the influence of Edward Sylvester Morse, who...Read more
This New York Times article talks about a new pedagogical approach to literacy unfolding currently at Oakhaven High in Memphis. Students taking biology are being taught how to break big words into smaller words, a tactic coming from the phonics movement in the science of reading. The phonics...Read more