A draft report by a commission of the National Science Board makes a number of recommendations for improving education in math, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM topics.

Science distinguishes itself from other ways of knowing and from other bodies of knowledge through the use of empirical standards, logical arguments, and skepticism, as scientists strive for the ...

National science standards likely to raise 'ruckus' ... "When I was a kid, education was memorizing and learning lots of facts — that methodology of teaching absolutely no longer makes sense.

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WUSTL geophysicist Michael Wysession is leading a team of scholars who are helping the nation's top science agencies develop national standards for K-12 science education. The core disciplines ...

The results are mixed for fourth-, eighth- and 12th-graders. More than that, though, experts say the nation's report card may be out of step with the latest goals for science learning.

But science has long been given short shrift in the first few years of school. Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject ...

YORK, Pa. (AP) - A group of educators from throughout the state aims to overhaul some of the country’s oldest standards for science education, all while avoiding a protracted political dispute ...

A cohort of national science education groups is increasing efforts to lobby for educational standards that include the teaching of climate change. Motivated in part by Wyoming lawmakers who ...

The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine will establish an Action Collaborative within which science education stakeholders at the national and state levels will develop ...

In 2012, the National Academies report A Framework for K-12 Science Education outlined a broad set of expectations for students based on a rich body of research on teaching and learning in science.

National Science Education Standards Addressed in SESSION 3. All students should develop: Understandings about scientific inquiry • Scientists conduct investigations for a wide variety of ...