Gates Foundation Eyes Middle Years Math Instruction
It's part of the foundation's $425 million research and development push, announced last fall.
It's part of the foundation's $425 million research and development push, announced last fall.
A senior at Paradise High School in northern California earned the Gold Award, the highest achievement given to a Girl Scout, for creating 12 STEM lessons for kindergarteners.
The AAAS launches a new project to develop assessment scenarios that measure the NGSS' energy standards.
The good news, says an Education Trust review of a sample of more than 1,800 math assignments, is that most do target at least one or more of the Common Core State Standards. The bad news? They continue to focus on procedural knowledge, rather than more conceptual mathematical thinking.
Students at a New Jersey high school can virtually dissect the human body, thanks to the purchase of cutting edge technology typically available only to medical students. But are digital dissections the best way to teach biology and anatomy?
A federal committee failed to analyze performance data on the more than 160 federal programs that promote STEM education and research.
Achieve will offer the badge to science units it deems well aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards.
Girls are interested in science, technology, engineering, and math, but more needs to be done to prepare them for success in these fields, according to a report from the ACT college-testing service.
A study of more than 140,000 college students' records found that student access to more high school STEM classes didn't predict whether they would major in or earn a degree in a STEM field.
Early experience with science can help youngsters develop critical problem-solving skills, but many parents feel ill-equipped to pursue the subject with their children, according to a new survey.
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