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Feed, Need, Greed: The Politics of Food in Bite-Size Morsels

The Food and Nutrition Group of the Boston chapter of Science for the People has revised our alternative curriculum for high school students entitled Feed. Need. Greed (first written in 1974). Our goal is to raise the awareness of students and teachers to the "why's" of food production, to the effects of diet on...

Discovering the History of Women in Science: A Course Outline

Recently the scientific establishment and the federal government have professed an interest in encouraging women to enter the scientific professions. Their efforts have usually taken the form of "Career Facilitation Projects" and "Science Career Workshops" for undergraduate women, funded by the National Science...

Jonathan Kozol’s Tactics for Teachers: How to Challenge the School System

Jonathan Kozol is a familiar name within the circles of alternative education. As teacher and author, Kozol has experienced many facets of the public school system and has had a great deal of personal contact with administrators, teachers, parents and students. Recently he has completed a manuscript entitled "Fighting...

Dick and Jane Meet Scientific Man: An Analysis of Reading Management Systems

Most of us remember relatively little about learning to read. It involved little books with a pretty picture and a few short words on each page. For some of us, there was a lot of rhyming of words, like "hat-cat-fat"; only many years later did we learn that this was called "phonics." Some of us found it pretty...

Testing: The Competency Controversy

Educational testing in America has become a cradle-to-grave arbiter of social and economic mobility. Tests determine who succeeds and who fails, who receives remedial or enrichment services, who goes to college or graduate school, who has his or her way paid, and who practices medicine, law or the other prestigious...

About This Issue

The Boston Science and Education Editorial Group selected the articles for this issue of SftP magazine based on our interests and experiences as teachers. We are concerned with the need for change in education, particularly science education, and are well aware of the difficulties confronting teachers who attempt...

Organizing Miners: An Interview with a Mexican Copper Miner

These are the words of a miner from Nacozari, Mexico. This open pit copper mining town of 18,000 is situated in the Mexican desert seventy miles south of Douglas, Arizona, in Sonora State. In this largest and richest area for copper mining in North America is La Caridad (Charity) mine. Managed by the Mexican affiliate...

Changing the Face of Health Care in Mozambique

While they waited for the pediatrics ward meeting to begin, the workers at Central Hospital of Maputo were singing. "A luta continua contra a sistema colonial." "The struggle against the colonial system still goes on." Although a ten-year war ended direct Portuguese rule in Mozambique, FRELIMO, the governing party...