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 ...

As a doctoral student at the University of Washington in Seattle, biologist Michelle Smith spent a lot of time sorting fruit flies under the microscope. But she often found her mind wandering to her ...

While high-quality literacy instruction has remained a cornerstone of education leaders’ priorities, this year, the science of reading has dominated classrooms and discussions around instructional ...

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 ...

A slow but significant change has been taking place in the early reading world over the past year, loosening the grip that some long-used, but unproven, instructional techniques have held over the ...

WASHINGTON — The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have launched the Collaborative for Advancing Science Teaching and Learning in K-12 (CASTL-K12), a new activity that will ...

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 ...

Long before the federal government intruded on the already wavering trust in science, the field of K-12 science education was in trouble. Proper teacher training, the deprofessionalization of ...

Suggested Citation: "2 Foundational Principles." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Teaching K-12 Science and Engineering During a Crisis. Washington, DC: The National ...

Fed up parents, civil rights activists, newly awakened educators and lawmakers are crusading for “the science of reading.” Can they get results? Most children need systematic, sound-it-out instruction ...

The Secondary Science Education major at the University of Delaware offers students interested in teaching middle or high school science the opportunity to study their scientific area of interest ...