New Jersey education officials had some rare positive news when they released statewide standardized test scores this week.

A major recent study showed that informal science learning can play an important role in improving student learning in that subject. Such out-of-class learning can include trips to zoos or museums and ...

This month marks the five-year anniversary of the World Health Organization's declaration that COVID-19 was a pandemic. That announcement shuttered school buildings and launched millions of students ...

Aspiring teachers are unfamiliar with basic principles of learning science and should learn how to connect those principles to practice, according to a new report from Deans for Impact. Last fall, ...

New Zealand’s draft science curriculum, released last month, promises to advance “knowledge-rich” learning. But the term remains only loosely defined and the curriculum fails to appreciate the ...

With only 18 minutes a day spent on science in the average elementary classroom, advocates are hoping outdoor learning labs are a way to spark students’ interest in the topic. Credit: Luis Bernardo ...

Many students struggle to understand complex STEM concepts because lectures and textbooks often make science difficult to ...

Despite efforts from No Child Left Behind to promote 'highly qualified' teaching, recent research shows that just 36 percent of new secondary science teachers are teaching only in their trained ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research shows that safety in school science labs and classrooms is a national concern. More than half of schools have had an injury or litigation, and more than ...

Liam Guilfoyle works for the Department of Education, University of Oxford. The work discussed in this article emerges from the Oxford Argumentation in Religion and Science (OARS) project which is ...

This blog post has some pretty useful information. So print it out; get out your highlighter and take off the cap. Ready? Now throw it away, because highlighters don't really help people learn. We all ...