6/28/2013 - 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 several awards.
6/28/2013 - 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 the subject.
6/28/2013 - 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 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.
6/26/2013 - 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 careers.
6/26/2013 - The Washington Post
Maryland became the fourth state to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards, a new set of voluntary, internationally benchmarked K-12 standards that are said to be a huge leap in science education.
6/26/2013 - ITAR-TASS
Russia’s Roskosmos Federal Space Agency has become an honored partner of the Olympic torch relay. Under the agreement, the agency will organize the delivery of Olympic torch to the International Space Station and into the open space. This will be the first ever spacewalk with the Olympic torch.
6/26/2013 - The Sacramento Bee
Seven educators to receive prizes valued at $5,500 for demonstrating innovative uses of data-collection technology in the classroom
6/26/2013 - AAAS
Unlike previous efforts to develop science education standards across the country, the Next Generation Science Standards benefit from advances in cognitive science, increased capacity in education, and support from the business community, according to Shirley Malcom, AAAS Education and Human Resources director.
6/24/2013 - The Baltimore Sun
Students across Maryland would see revamped science classes under curriculum standards the state school board will consider—part of a broader effort by educators, researchers, and businesses to kindle innovation in children well before they enter the workforce.
6/21/2013 - U.S. News & World Report
These 250 high schools are the best of the best in math, science, engineering and technology education.
6/20/2013 - NSTA Reports—LaMoine L. Motz, PhD, Sandra West Moody, PhD, and James T. Biehle, AIA
Teaching science anywhere other than in a properly designed lab will not allow students to achieve the goals identified in the Next Generation Science Standards. School boards, administrators, architects, facilities directors, business and industry, parents, science coordinators, and science teachers must all be aware of the hazards of inadequate facilities and practices to students and teachers and work together as stakeholders in America’s future.
6/19/2013 - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Robert M. Doucette has been selected executive director of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). He will assume the responsibilities of his new position on August 15.
6/19/2013 - CBS News
The nation's teacher-training programs do not adequately prepare would-be educators for the classroom, even as they produce almost triple the number of graduates needed, according to a survey of more than 1,000 programs released Tuesday.
6/19/2013 - The New York Times
The eight recruits were selected from 6,300 applicants and will start training at the Johnson Space Center in Houston in August.
6/19/2013 - Education Week
Blogger Heather Singmaster contends that we still need to make the case to our local communities that we need a culturally competent workforce.
6/13/2013 - NSTA
NSTA strongly disagrees with the opinions of the Fordham Institute regarding the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The NGSS contains rigorous and substantive science content that will give all students the skills and knowledge they need to be informed citizens, college ready, and prepared for careers in a workforce that now considers science skills and knowledge to be basic and fundamental requirements.
6/11/2013 - U.S. News & World Report
Heart attack therapies can leave patients with an elevated risk of future heart failure, but four California high school students have a solution.
6/11/2013 - eSchool News
In-video quizzes answer the question: ‘Who is doing their homework?’ and help direct the focus of class.
6/7/2013 - Houston Chronicle
Three students from Mitchell Intermediate School in The Woodlands were honored in the nation’s capital Thursday for their scientific—and equine—expertise.
6/5/2013 - Sentinel & Enterprise
When New England Patriots running back Stevan Ridley and wide receiver Wes Welker suffered head injuries last winter, it got three friends at Sky View Middle School thinking. Three sixth-graders named themselves the Falcons (even though the school mascot is the hawk) and set to work finding a better helmet to protect athletes.
6/5/2013 - The New York Times
A nearly complete skeleton of a tiny, ancient primate is the earliest well-preserved fossil primate ever found, dating back some 55 million years and dialing back the fossil record for primates by an impressive eight million years, a research team declared on Wednesday.
6/5/2013 - BBC News
An "invisibility" time cloak which is able to hide events in a continuous stream of light has been developed by scientists.
6/5/2013 - Al.com
If you think the fight over Alabama public schools' use of national education standards for math and English was contentious, wait until state education officials consider adopting new national science standards released this year.
6/4/2013 - The Winston-Salem Chronicle
Rebecca Koza, a science teacher at The Arts Based School, has been awarded the National Science Teachers Association’s Maitland P. Simmons Memorial Award for New Teachers. NSTA recently announced the recipients of its 2013 Teacher Awards Program, which honors K–12 teachers, professors, principals, and other educators for their outstanding achievement and innovative programs in science education.
6/4/2013 - The New York Times; requires free registration
Nearly half a century after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a sweeping federal education act and promised to “bridge the gap between helplessness and hope” for disadvantaged children in the nation’s public schools, Congress is still trying to fine-tune the law to achieve its original goals.