Classrooms have emerged as a new front in the increasingly contentious debate over the causes and implications of climate change. In 2014, two Oklahoma state senators attempted to repeal a set of ...

In the last few years, Foothill’s curriculum was faced with immense changes as new Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) were implemented. The Common Core standards have been ...

In a world filled with the products of scientific inquiry, scientific literacy has become a necessity for everyone. Everyone needs to use scientific information to make choices that arise every day.

Students drove change in what Colorado public school students are expected to know about climate change. With a bipartisan 7-2 vote, the State Board of Education voted on Thursday to change science ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa’s department of education released proposed changes to the state’s science education standards. The proposed update replaces mentions of climate change with ‘climate ...

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (CBS) - New science standards are on the way to children's classrooms, and teachers found a fun and hands-on way to learn about those standards. Teachers dropped marbles, golf ...

Gaston County Schools is implementing new science standards that were adopted by the North Carolina State Board of Education in July 2023. Shannon Hullett, elementary director for the district said at ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. A decade ago, California schools ...

A review team that Iowa formed last fall to revise its K-12 science education standards and draft recommended changes — which some team members said contained changes they hadn’t signed off on — has ...

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s “The State of State Science Standards” gave Washington a perfect 10 for its standards and one of two “A” grades in the country, alongside California. Maryland and ...

The world looks so different after learning science. For example, trees are made of air, primarily. When they are burned, they go back to air, and in the flaming heat is released the flaming heat of ...