2/5/2010 - NSTA Reports—Debra Shapiro
Teachers and students are communicating and sharing ideas on collaborative websites called wikis that allow them to post work, comment on others’ postings, and make revisions as a group.
2/4/2010 - NSTA Reports—Lynn Petrinjak
The third group of NSTA New Science Teacher Academy Fellows is preparing for the NSTA 2010 National Conference in Philadelphia next month, capping off their fellowship year.
2/4/2010 - District Administration
Fortunately for our sportscentric culture, NBC Learn and the National Science Foundation have found a way to show K–12 students that science is applicable to everything from fashion to halfpipes.
2/4/2010 - eSchool News
A recent study from the Brookings Institution says education isn't getting its fair share of national news coverage—and isn't getting the right stories reported when it does.
2/4/2010 - Reuters
Scientists operating the "Big Bang" particle collider at CERN could solve the mystery of what gives mass to matter during a nearly two-year non-stop run lasting until late 2011, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
2/3/2010 - NSTA Reports—Debra Shapiro
Project Exploration, a nonprofit science education organization, provides out-of-school science programs that level the playing field for all students and have changed the face of science.
2/3/2010 - Education Week
In its role helping the nation’s schools connect to the Internet and other telecommunications services, the E-rate has been among the most consistent of federal programs. But perhaps too consistent, educators and experts say.
2/3/2010 - Reuters
Astronomers have found a comet-like object they believe was created by the collision of two asteroids, possible siblings of the rogue rock blamed for killing the dinosaurs millions of years ago.
2/3/2010 - Lexington Herald-Leader
The University of Kentucky is launching a new laboratory to develop innovative ways to educate students from pre-school through graduate programs. The goals are to figure out ways to incorporate new technology in teaching, help bridge gaps between what students know when they graduate from high school and what universities and employers expect them to know, and shake up conventional teaching and classroom formats.
2/3/2010 - ScienceInsider
Trouble is brewing in the process of deciding where to site the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), a next-generation optical telescope that will have a mirror 42 meters across and will be the largest instrument in the world when completed in 2018.
2/3/2010 - The New York Times (requires free registration)
The Russian space agency has no plans to fly to the Moon and will not be shifting this position now that President Obama has asked NASA to abandon a second American Moon program. The exploration goals of the two space agencies would “fully coincide” if America drops its Moon program.
2/2/2010 - NSTA Reports
These reports—from California, Colorado, Kentucky, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, and Pennsylvania—share regional news affecting science educators.
2/2/2010 - Reuters
The Lancet medical journal formally retracted a paper on Tuesday that caused a 12-year international battle over links between the three-in-one childhood vaccine MMR and autism.
2/2/2010 - National Science Foundation
Biologists say they've found evidence that ecology and evolution are reciprocally interacting processes, a fundamental shift in scientists' understanding of the relationship between evolution and ecology.
2/2/2010 - BBC News
Taking a daily fish oil capsule can stave off mental illness in those at highest risk, trial findings suggest.
2/2/2010 - ScienceNews
The President's FY 2011 budget plan outlines a 5.9% increase in nondefense R&D.
2/2/2010 - USA Today
A district court judge in Illinois has ordered the owner of a web-based company to stop selling term papers unless he can prove he has permission from the papers' authors.
2/1/2010 - Pat Shane
A Message From NSTA President Pat Shane
2/1/2010 - Education Week
Satisfied with the standards crafted by the multistate initiative, the foundation will make free its content-focused K–8 sequence.
2/1/2010 - ScienceDaily
A tiny communications satellite designed and built by University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduates has been selected as one of three university research satellites to be launched into orbit in November as part of a NASA space education initiative.
2/1/2010 - The Boston Globe
Bay Farm Montessori School students were trolling the Duxbury shore line under a brilliant winter sun as part of a hands-on marine ecology course modeled on what scientists do.
1/28/2010 - Education Week
Despite a pledge to hold down spending on most domestic programs, President Barack Obama on Wednesday night called for greater investment in public schools in his State of the Union address as part of a push to renew the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
1/28/2010 - ScienceNews
Forty high school students have entered the final heat in the race to win the nation’s longest-running precollege science competition, the Intel Science Talent Search. This year’s finalists were selected from a pool of 1,736 entrants and will now compete for shares of $630,000 in scholarships.
1/28/2010 - U.S. News & World Report
Online college education is expanding—rapidly. More than 4.6 million college students were taking at least one online course at the start of the 2008–2009 school year. That's more than 1 in 4 college students, and it's a 17% increase from 2007.
1/28/2010 - The New York Times (requires free registration)
Fossilized structures of what appear to be feathers match the feathers of living birds down to the microscopic level, and from them scientists have determined what color the ancient feathers were.