Teachers unions must be willing to reconsider seniority provisions, rework tenure provisions, and work with districts to create fair ways of incorporating student-achievement growth in teacher evaluation and compensation, the...

The stories that Edgar Choueiri and Winston Soboyejo tell of their native countries and of their own careers are strangely similar. Choueiri got hooked on rocket science in Lebanon, where as a boy growing up during the Apollo era he blasted toy rockets into the sky and watched them climb furiously...

Middle school students who were part of a unique science learning program developed by The University of Texas School of Public Health showed significant increases in interest and achievement scores compared to other students, a recent study...

Earth's most prominent rain band, near the equator, has been moving north at an average rate of almost a mile (1.4 km) a year for three centuries, likely because of a warming world, scientists...

Eileen Jang of Cary, N.C. was named the U.S. winner of the 2009 Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP)the most prestigious international student competition for water-related researchduring a ceremony this past weekend at the University of Alaska in...

Middle school students who were part of a unique science learning program developed by The University of Texas School of Public Health showed significant increases in interest and achievement scores compared to other students, a recent study...

To ensure that all children enter elementary school with the foundation they need for success, a major national initiative is needed to improve early childhood mathematics education, says a new report from the National Research...

To ensure that all children enter elementary school with the foundation they need for success, a major national initiative is needed to improve early childhood mathematics education, says a new report from the National Research...

Early-childhood education, whether delivered through federal preschool programs or other means, needs to be revamped to place more emphasis on math instruction and prepare adults to cover that material more effectively, a new report...

tags: Arthur Benjamin, Mathematics, calculus, statistics, education, , TEDTalks, streaming video Someone always asks the math teacher, "Am I going to use calculus in real life?" And for most of us, says Arthur Benjamin, the answer is...

Popular searches: Michael Jackson | summer travel | Iran | mark sanford | john and kate | tmz | Search more Parent InvolvementAs the new high school year quickly approaches, parents and students are eagerly preparing for the next wave in academic studies and social...

I spoke with Vikram Savkar, senior vp and publishing director of Nature Eduction. Hes also the head at Scitable.com, a Web site that mixes elements of crowdsourcing, social media, and peer-reviewed science for educational...

The two national organizations coordinating a push for common academic standards today named the 29 people who are deciding what math and language arts skills students will need to know and when, along with the 35 people who will formally critique the groups...

Children learn and absorb the most when learning is fun. Scientific and educational toys make learning fun for children, and stimulate cognitive thinking and...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) A half-million Minnesota students turned in a testing report card remarkably similar to one from last year, a holding pattern that will land more schools on a list of...

State test scores for math and reading are up, but not enough for No Child Left Behind...

A new report raises concerns about the achievement levels of middle school students in many Southern states and outlines steps state leaders should consider to better prepare young people for high...

Last Friday, in my post on Nature's comprehensive coverage of science journalism, I mentioned the recent Nature Biotechnology conference paper on science communications co-authored by scibling Matt...

Amy Yee reports for today's New York Times that Tibetan monks and nuns in Dharamsala, India, are getting an intensive education in science. Yee writes, "they learned about Galileo s law of accelerated motion, chromosomes, neurons and the Big Bang, among other far-ranging...

A new report raises concerns about the achievement levels of middle school students in many Southern states and outlines steps state leaders should consider to better prepare young people for high...

by admin | 2 comments Someone always asks the math teacher, Am I going to use calculus in real life? And for most of us, says mathematician Arthur Benjamin, the answer is...

Yesterday I graduated the Master of Arts in Education program at Antioch University Los Angeles! This personal milestone has put me in an excited and reflective state of...

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has obtained an EPA study of the endangerment to human well-being ostensibly caused by carbon dioxide emissions, together with a set of EPA emails indicating that the study, which concludes that carbon dioxide is not a significant cause of climate change, was...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Gains in math and reading test scores for Arkansas open-enrollment charter school students were significantly better than the ones for their...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) Western Kentucky University's efforts to steer more students into math and science teaching careers is getting a nearly $900,000 boost from the National Science...

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Watershed Investigations: 12 Labs for High School Science provides educators with flexible, customizable experiments designed to fit any teaching...

SEATTLE (AP) Washington school districts have been applying for a type of work visa, more commonly used in the private sector, to hire teachers and staff from foreign...

Sherry Seethaler is a writer, educator, director of science education outreach for the division of physical sciences at the University of California San Diego and author of the Union-Tribune's column Questions Answered, where each week on Page E2 she addresses readers' queries about all things..

, 12:10 p.m. CDT The Associated Press (AP) BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Western Kentucky University's efforts to steer more students into math and science teaching careers is getting a nearly $900,000 boost from the National Science...

Jun 28, 2009 (Houston Chronicle - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- The broom sprang forward, striking a metal tray, sending it and three cardboard toilet paper rolls...

COPYRIGHT 2009 National Science Teachers Association [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Five years ago, a survey of first-year students at a small liberal arts college in Maine revealed some very interesting...

Saturday, July 25 6:00p at University of Texas, Arlington, Arlington, TX The Society of Professional Engineers' educational foundation Advancing Hispanic Excellence in Technology, Engineering, Math and Science (AHETEMS) presents Jamie Escalante, the East Los Angeles high school calculus teacher who...

MADISONVILLE, Ky. (AP) Endia Shepherd carefully used a pencil to push the Christmas light base into place. The plastic pieces kept wires from moving as the 13-year-old and other members of her group at the Governor's Minority Student College Preparation Program built a traffic light at the Brown Badgett...

Are cellphones and other mobile devices powerful learning tools or intolerable classroom distractions? For Elliot Soloway, the answer is a no...

Prakash B. Patel oversees several types of online courses in his computer lab each week at Quakertown Community Senior High School in Pennsylvania. Though the 25 students in the lab may each be working on a virtual course covering a different subject, their placement in Patels lab under his supervision is...

ExxonMobil has awarded a $300,000 grant to the Atlanta-based SECME - a non-profit alliance of universities, school districts, industrial and governmental organizations - to help promote education and career opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) for young...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed legislation that will make some significant changes in the states accountability system and budgeting requirements for schools, including tougher high school graduation standards and elimination of a requirement that school districts must spend 65 percent of their operating..

It's a kid's worst nightmare just as the last bell has rung for summer break, a school district's error sentences students to another six weeks in...

More students than ever are pursuing graduate education in science and engineering and those doing so represent a greater proportion of non-white ethnic groups and of...

Contact: Byron Spice 412-268-9068 bspice@cs.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon Reappoints Bryant As School of Computer Science Dean PITTSBURGHRandal E. Bryant, University Professor and dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS), has been reappointed to a five-year term as...