The new results from the Nation’s Report Card show that only 29% of eighth graders are proficient in science, down from 33% ...

Students are struggling to learn science during the pandemic, even as they find it increasingly interesting and relevant to their lives, according to new research highlighted at the annual American ...

The move— which amounts to a roughly 50% cut for such research, experts calculate —also cut the maximum amount available for ...

WASHINGTON — The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have launched the Collaborative for Advancing Science Teaching and Learning in K-12 (CASTL-K12), a new activity that will ...

Communicating science effectively to the public can be as important as applying it. An IAEA project is training nuclear experts in 28 countries in Asia and the Pacific to engage secondary school ...

Science literacy and expertise are essential to the function of modern society. Understanding concepts and processes of science, including chemistry, help to make sense of and to address the complex ...

A couple of years ago, five faculty members at Harvard University published an intriguing study. They had run an experiment in an introductory undergraduate physics course to figure out why active ...

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