The Colorado-based ed-tech company Penda Learning is adding Scantron assessments to its game-based digital science curriculum for elementary and middle schoolers, aligning it with state-specific ...

States that are designing science tests to satisfy the No Child Left Behind Act should set up broad “systems” of assessment, in which questions are aligned with standards and curriculum and new ...

Assessments based on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are coming to many states. To date, 18 states have adopted NGSS. Other states have or are adopting new science standards that are ...

Laying out a new vision for science assessments, a panel of the National Research Council Tuesday proposed that states design testing systems that integrate several key types of science learning, and ...

Four years ago Barack Obama promised to improve states' standardized testing of scientific aptitude in public schools. In his campaign literature, he pointed to a few states that were already ...

SOLVING THINGS THEY NEED TO SUCCEED. I THINK THAT IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO LOOK AT THESE RESULTS AND BE ANYTHING OTHER THAN ALARMED, AND TO FEEL ANYTHING OTHER THAN URGENCY AND A NEED TO RESPOND. A ...

California leads the world in Nobel Prize winners and high-tech companies, but the state’s students trail everyone else in science literacy, finishing dead last among 40 states in a nationwide ...

Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...