We invite you to join us this Friday at 3:00 pm ET for a special webinar on scientific culture and next week for the virtual launch of the Civics Alliance's new model K-12 social studies standards.

More on our upcoming webinars:

Join NAS this Friday, June 24th, at 3 pm ET, for a discussion of how the culture of science has changed over the last century.

The academic sciences were fundamentally transformed in the aftermath of World War II. Prior to the war, science in the universities had been supported by a loose coalition of institutional funds, philanthropic foundations, commercial interests, and ad hoc funding sources: the Small Science ecosystem. After the war, the academic sciences became the client of the federal government, through the establishment of the National Science Foundation, and an expanding range of federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, and several others. The pre-war Small Science ecosystem has thereby been transformed into the Big Science ecosystem.

Is Big Science an improvement over Small Science?

This webinar will feature Stephen P. Turner, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Florida, and Daryl E. Chubin, an independent consultant, and Founding Director of the AAAS Center for Advancing Science & Engineering Capacity. The webinar will be moderated by J. Scott Turner, Director of the Intrusion in the Sciences project at the National Association of Scholars.

The discussion will center on Turner’s and Chubin’s article "The changing temptations of science," published recently in Issues in Science and Technology. The article is available online here.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

Join NAS's Civics Alliance on Monday, June 27th, at 2 pm ET for the virtual launch of American Birthright: The Civics Alliance’s Model K-12 Social Studies Standards.

Every American student should be educated to be another Harry Truman—a high-school graduate who, without ever graduating from college, has a solid grasp of history and is capable of serving as an officer, a judge, a senator, and president.

Yet some state education departments are set on imposing state social studies standards that combine misguided pedagogical theory, low academic standards, and anti-American animus. Too many Americans emerge from our schools ignorant of America’s history, indifferent to liberty, and estranged from their country.

The National Association of Scholars’ Civics Alliance has created American Birthright: The Civics Alliance’s Model K-12 Social Studies Standards to inspire America’s state education departments to provide social studies standards that teach American students their birthright of liberty.

The launch event will feature David Randall, Executive Director of the Civics Alliance and coordinator of American Birthright; Nicole Neily, President and Founder of Parents Defending Education; Douglas Norlander, veteran social studies teacher; Sue Lucas-Peterson, South Dakota State Representative; and Jenna Robinson, President of the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

If you can't attend the events live, you can still register to watch the recordings. All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the recording shortly after each event.

If you have missed any of our past events or webinars, you may find all of our recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/user/NAScholars/videos.

I look forward to seeing you in the virtual audience!
 

Best,
Chance Layton
Director of Communications
National Association of Scholars