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 ...

Elementary science education is rarely a priority in schools. That may be changing under the Next Generation Science Standards, adopted in whole or in part by 38 states and the District of Columbia.

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 ...

The National Science Teaching Association says 18 measures to support climate education in public schools in 10 states have been active in statehouses so far in 2020.

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 ...

New academic standards promise to revive simmering debates about how to teach science.

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David Evans is the executive director of the National Science Teachers Association, which has been instrumental in creating the new science standards.

Description 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 ...

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 ...

A former president of the National Science Teaching Association and a member of an 18-member steering committee to review the standards this summer, Royce said some districts, however, voluntarily ...