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  • New Science Standards Designed for Wide Range of Learners

    Education Week
    When the writers of the Next Generation Science Standards began sketching out a new vision for K-12 science education, they gave themselves a mandate: Develop standards with all students in mind, not just the high achievers already expected to excel in...  [view full summary]
    When the writers of the Next Generation Science Standards began sketching out a new vision for K-12 science education, they gave themselves a mandate: Develop standards with all students in mind, not just the high achievers already expected to excel in the subject.
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  • Eager Eye Over Microscope

    The Charlotte Observer
    Emily Ashkin didn’t let her young age – 14 – get in the way last year when she decided she wanted to work in a lab doing cancer research. Not only did she secure a spot in a lab last summer by herself, but she also did her own research project that won...  [view full summary]
    Emily Ashkin didn’t let her young age – 14 – get in the way last year when she decided she wanted to work in a lab doing cancer research. Not only did she secure a spot in a lab last summer by herself, but she also did her own research project that won several awards.
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  • No Time to Waste in Making STEM Education Work

    U.S. News & World Report
    Although Democrats and Republicans don't agree on much today, they have a moral imperative to make progress where they do. One area for potential cooperation is in better educating our children in math and science. This is critical to keeping America...  [view full summary]
    Although Democrats and Republicans don't agree on much today, they have a moral imperative to make progress where they do. One area for potential cooperation is in better educating our children in math and science. This is critical to keeping America competitive globally and creating good jobs here at home. And we all know that in an era of budget deficits, we will need to achieve better results without spending more. Both those goals can be met through bipartisan reforms in the “STEM” fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
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  • Md. Adopts New Way of Teaching Science: State School Board Votes to Put Standards in Place by 2017

    The Baltimore Sun
    Maryland became the fourth state in the nation Tuesday to adopt new science standards that will require teachers to emphasize the process of doing science rather than memorizing facts, a move designed to get more children interested in science and science...  [view full summary]
    Maryland became the fourth state in the nation Tuesday to adopt new science standards that will require teachers to emphasize the process of doing science rather than memorizing facts, a move designed to get more children interested in science and science careers.
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Blick’s Pick

Bird Island:

This island on the Peru/Ecuador border is home to over 140 species of bird, including frigate birds (the ones with the puffed-up red chests) and ibises. I was most struck by the intensity and variety of sounds included in this film. Vimeo link

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Today in Science History

On July 1 in 1983, visionary-engineer-architect R. Buckminster Fuller dies at 87 in Los Angeles. After two expulsions from Harvard and a stint in the Navy, Fuller went into business with his father-in-law manufacturing unique modular homes. But after the company failed and his four-year-old daughter died, Fuller found himself one night in Chicago on the verge of suicide. In a flash of inspiration (he called it "a blind date with principle"), he committed his life to the nonprofit designing of things that maximized the social use of limited natural resources. He is especially remembered for designing the "Dymaxion" (called "the first streamlined car," it was omnidirectional, all-terrain, and bumpered all around) and designing the geodesic dome (still the only large building that can be theoretically set on the ground as a single structure and that has no limiting dimensions).

—from The Illustrated Almanac of Science, Technology, and Invention

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