Eighteen states and the District of Columbia, along with many individual districts, have now adopted the Next Generation Science Standards, meaning millions of students around the country will be ...

When Susan McClarty’s district made the switch to open educational resources, the 6th and 7th grade science teacher at Centennial Middle School in Broken Arrow, Okla., initially struggled to find ...

WASHINGTON — To explore the complex interactions between the natural world and society and enhance our understanding of Earth’s systems — the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, ...

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Vol. 25, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: THE NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SCIENCE TEACHER EDUCATION (March 2014), pp. 157-175 (19 pages) Published By: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. The National ...

Nanotechnology and materials science have played crucial roles in scientific innovation over the past few decades. Nanotechnology involves studying particles and structures in the size range of 1-100 ...

The State Board of Education is moving forward with plans to add the state’s science assessment to the California School Dashboard, making it a new piece of the statewide school accountability system.

This article was originally published in CalMatters. A decade ago, California schools introduced a new K-12 science curriculum that was hands-on, interactive and designed to prepare students for the ...