Amidst growing fights over common state standards and tests for mathematics and English/language arts, the separate set of common K-12 science standards have been quietly gaining steam, but some ...

A recent study, which I wrote about last week, makes the case for building students’ depth of knowledge in science—as opposed to focusing on “breadth,” a long list of topics across the subject. But in ...

This story has been edited to add additional information about 12th grade mathematics and reading scores. Eighth grade students’ science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the ...

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Science educators spend a lot of time debating what students need to learn to be considered scientifically literate. Despite our best intentions, many of these conversations boil down to a ...

The State Board of Education is moving forward with plans to add the state’s science assessment to the California School Dashboard, making it a new piece of the statewide school accountability system.

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Scores on national science tests fit a disturbing pattern of declining performance among low-achievers, and the officials who oversee the test have provided conflicting explanations. Recent results ...

Adults who took high school biology might remember a lecture on cell structure, then a test asking to identify its parts, plus an assignment to build a cell, perhaps with papier mâché and dry macaroni ...

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