John Droz is a NC resident and politically independent physicist. He retired when he was 34 and over the last few decades has been actively involved in a variety of national science policy matters: from COVID to climate, renewables to religion, and education to elections. John has a free, twice-a-month Media Balance Newsletter that covers all of these topics and can be reached here.
Opinion
Major victory as scientific method returns to NC K-12 standards
This was the first year that N.C. K-12 Science Standards were formally reviewed since 2009 — way too long. I first became aware of what was being proposed when the 2nd Draft was published on the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI) website. As a professional scientist, I read these carefully and had two major...