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 ...

How would you dance the ocean tides? That’s a question that several ten-year-old pupils at Portuguese schools have had to think about, as they took part in a pilot project that uses dance in geology ...

Drs. Ina V.S. Mullis and Michael O. Martin are executive directors of the TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center at Boston College. As the number of jobs in STEM fields and the related demand for ...

Imagine entering a science classroom where rows of students sit in silence, eyes fixed on their notebooks as the teacher dictates line after line from the prescribed textbook. This is not ...

A free program is bringing hands-on science activities to tens of thousands of students.

As wildfires will continue to challenge Nevada and the West for decades to come, educators and firefighting agencies are teaming up to make sure teens gain an understanding of the complex issues ...

Who started the Great Chicago Fire – Peg Leg Sullivan or Mrs. O’Leary? We can debate it until the cows come home. But one thing that we can’t argue with is the science behind the fire. What made ...