A couple of years ago, five faculty members at Harvard University published an intriguing study. They had run an experiment in an introductory undergraduate physics course to figure out why active ...

Growing up near the World Bank’s agricultural development project in Anyigba (present day Kogi State, Nigeria), Mark Akubo and his friends would visit the aerodrome to watch light planes take off and ...

As the coronavirus has infected millions of Americans, the news media have become saturated with numbers: new infection cases, hospitalization rates, death tolls, and vaccine trial results. Many ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Discovering the structure of DNA, diagnosing sickle-cell anemia, and explaining the evolution of peppered moths all have one thing in common. They were made possible by science.

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 develop ...

One of the twin goals of The Next 30 Years is to reimagine education reform as a practice-driven enterprise—less about pulling policy levers and more about what happens between teachers and students ...

While coding is a good start, school districts need to develop broader computer science initiatives to grow 21st century–ready learners. Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in ...

A don at the Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology, Ikere Ekiti, Ekiti State, Prof. Adebisi Awodun, has advocated the simplification of the teaching of science and ...

In their efforts to regulate how teachers can discuss issues of politics and identity in the classroom, Republican state legislators have so far focused mainly on social studies and history ...

Part personal narrative, part primer on the science of memory, and part exploration of the implications of cutting-edge brain ...

While this fall marks my 38 th year in education, it has been 28 years since I was a classroom teacher. Teaching elementary school was the hardest job I ever had, but there are many parts of the role ...