A Framework for K-12 Science Education outlines a broad set of expectations for students in science and engineering in grades K-12. These expectations will inform the development of new standards for ...

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.

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

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...