Since 2009, American eighth graders have taken the National Assessment of Educational Progress Science Assessment to measure “their ability to engage in scientific inquiry and to conduct scientific ...
What you need to know: Teachers trained to turn science lessons into practical experiences. For years, science lessons in many Ugandan primary schools have relied heavily on textbooks, blackboards and ...
Virginia Gewin is a freelance reporter in Portland, Oregon. Amid a backdrop of massive cuts in US federal support for scientific research, a new effort — the Science Foundation — launched last week to ...