Good news for Minnesota! Minnesota Citizens for Science Education has been officially launched. This is a new advocacy group with the goal of promoting good science education in our state. Specifically—
A scientifically literate population is essential to Minnesota’s future. To that end, Minnesota Citizens for Science Education (MnCSE) will bring together the combined resources of teachers, scientists, and citizens to assure, defend, and promote the teaching and learning of evolutionary biology and other sciences in K-12 public school science classrooms, consistent with current scientific knowledge, theories, and practice.
If you’d like to be more involved, join the group. Browse the personal statements of the science advisors. Come on down to Science Education Saturday at the Bell Museum, on 11 November.
Oh, and if you like the logo, buy it on a t-shirt or coffee mug.
I don’t know about that logo. Maybe it will grow on me.
Really? I love the logo. Especially the E.
So it doesn’t mean Manganese Chambered Nautiluses for the Letter S in Phylogenetic Reconstruction?
I love it. Wish we had your level of organization (and some graphic designers to boot…)
Anyone know if there is anything like this in the Northeastern Ohio area?
OT: Jesus camp
Plunge,
http://www.ohioscience.org/
What does the S represent? Sulfur? But then presumably the Mn would represent random math, rather than manganese.
This group sounds like it has some great ideas but, seriously, the logo is dreadful.
The logo looks creative to me. I especially love the bright blue ammonite!
I just joined, but can’t make it Nov. 11. Instead of me, I will send $$. Definitely!
Is it pronounced, “Mensch?” That’d be a saving grace! :o
arensb: For it to work as element abbreviations it has to be capitalized “MnCSe”, as there is no element E. (Damn shame, that, but it makes “element writing” challenging as one has to use Se, Es, Ce, etc instead.)