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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Educators and scientists say they are encouraged by the latest version of the National Research Council's science education standards, an effort aimed at defining what United States K-12 students ...

The need for climate change education is clear to Hoosiers. Indeed, 72% — almost three quarters — of them agree that schools should teach our children about the causes, consequences and potential ...

Update to this Story: Oklahoma Board of Education Approves New Science and Social Studies Standards, Emphasizing Tribal Sovereignty and Civics The Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) has ...

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 ...