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There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right.

-- Carl Sagan

CESE: "Ensuring Quality Science and Math Education for All"

The Coalition for Excellence in Science and Math Education (CESE) is composed of interested citizens throughout New Mexico and the nation, including scientists, engineers, educators, university faculty, members of the clergy, and parents. CESE is non-partisan and non-sectarian, and welcomes members of all religions and political philosophies. This coalition works to improve science education and science literacy for all citizens.


Dr. Marshall Berman's Latest Presentation

View or download Dr. Marshall Berman's presentation to the New Mexicans for Science and Reason titled The “Intelligently Designed”Attack on Science and Society. He produced an excellent summary presentation on the ongoing battle between science and ID creationists.

Latest Beacon!

The May, 2008 issue of the Beacon is up!

Interested in science and education? Try these sites:

NMSR's Science Watch Now Podcast!

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CESE's Annual Meeting

Please make note of the CESE 2008 Annual Meeting. This will be held on Saturday, June 21, at 1-4 PM, at the Maxwell Anthropology Museum Lecture Hall (room 163). The meeting will include a presentation by noted Darwin actor Brian “Fox” Ellis of Fox Tales International (www.foxtalesint.com).

Strange Days on Planet Earth

Strange Days on Planet Earth will be airing on KNME-TV Wednesday, April 23rd at 9:00 p.m.

Attend the preview at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science with the producer, Mark Shelly! The date is Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 7:00 PM. The cost is $2 for the public, $1 for members, students and seniors.

This event is being sponsored by CESE, New Mexicans for Science and Reason and KNME-TV.

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Miscellanious News and Information

CESE extends our sincere condolences to Dr. Timothy Moy's family, and to his many colleagues and friends. Prof. Moy, who was an associate professor of History at the University of New Mexico, drowned on July 22nd while assisting his son in the waters off Kailua, in Hawaii. In addition to his many duties at UNM, Tim was a longtime member of CESE (the Coalition for Excellence in Science and Math Education), and served as president of CESE from 2001-2002. He was an articulate explainer of history and scientific thought, a strong promoter of increasing appreciation of science, and a passionate advocate of the importance of scientific integrity. He will be missed very much.



-Dave Thomas



Posted by: jesse on Jul 31, 2007 - 09:18 PM  Read full article: 'A Farewell to Dr Timothy Moy' (1745 more words)

Statistical analysis of US education

Walter Murfin

School fractions proficient in mathematics and reading are negatively correlated with school fractions of minority and economically disadvantaged students. For elementary schools that tested at least 40 students in school year 2005-2006, the correlation of math proficiency with school minority fractions was r = -0.700, p<<0.01. The correlation with school “Free or Reduced Price Lunch” ( FRPL) fraction was r = -0.650, p<<0.01 (“r” is the Pearson correlation coefficient and “p” is the significance level.) The correlations for reading proficiency were similarly large, significant, and negative. It is tempting to attribute a simple linear relation between economic status and performance. How realistic is a simple explanation for school performance?






Miscellanious News and Information

Creationists consistently attribute the cause of the practice of eugenics to the acceptance of evolutionary science and have blamed such things as Hitler's "racial cleansing" on Charles Darwin. Well, the real story lies elsewhere. In fact, this article by Rebecca Reis of CESE sets the record straight. The old saw "Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" applies. In fact, scientists and creationists play considerably different roles than one might think if listening to only the creationists. Read on for some good research and a much better picture of what the real story is.


By
Dr. Rebecca Reiss
Associate Professor of Biology
New Mexico Tech




Posted by: jesse on Jun 10, 2007 - 02:33 AM  Read full article: 'The Scary Science Of Sir Francis Galton And Jonathan Wells' (1328 more words)

Miscellanious News and Information

http://www.abqjournal.com/opinion/letters/564911opinion05-23-07.htm

PERHAPS ONLY a few of you have been following the KNME/PBS series, "Secret Files of the Inquisition." That's unfortunate.

It seems to me that one major reason that the "heretics," Jews, and other so-called "subhumans" (their interpretation included homosexuals, free-thinkers, some scientists, physicians, and book readers) were not totally annihilated during the Inquisition was the lack of the appropriate technology for mass murder.





Posted by: jesse on May 25, 2007 - 12:37 AM  Read full article: 'The New Inquisitors' (336 more words)

Statistical analysis of US education

(Please do not let the math at the beginning stop you from reading the important conclusions in the full article!)

By Walt Murfin
"Canonical Correlation" or "Canonical Regression" is a method for finding the relation of a number of simultaneous inputs to a number of simultaneous outputs. That is, how are input variables t, u, v, . . ., taken all together, related to output variables x, y, z, . . . ., taken all together? At first glance, this seems almost too much to ask. However, there is a method. First, consider ordinary multiple regression. Let the input be an N×P matrix X, and the output is an N×1 vector Y. We are trying to find the constants "a" for the equation Z=a0 +a1*x1 +a2*x2 +a3*x3+. . . +aP*xP. We find the a’s such that Z will have the maximum correlation with the actual output Y. We can guarantee that no other combination of the x’s will give a higher correlation.



Posted by: jesse on May 16, 2007 - 07:33 PM  Read full article: 'Canonical Correlation' (950 more words)

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