Imagine a classroom of curious elementary students grasping clipboards, eager to conduct an experiment to see if the small car they built can protect their egg “passenger” in a head-on collision. It’s ...

A kindergarten student raises her hand during a reading lesson in Jennifer Lee’s class at Southwest Primary School in Hickory, N.C. Credit: Ariel Gilreath for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

Few decisions have greater impact on the effectiveness of science teaching in the nation's schools than the process of selecting instructional materials. This selection determines to a large extent ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

When children learn science and engineering, they apply knowledge and skills from other subjects, regardless of whether the teacher explicitly calls attention to it. Children use language and literacy ...

As different initiatives, priorities, and efforts to change teaching and learning in schools come and go, one challenge remains constant: Time is a finite resource. In elementary schools, especially, ...

This month marks the five-year anniversary of the World Health Organization's declaration that COVID-19 was a pandemic. That announcement shuttered school buildings and launched millions of students ...

Yerington Elementary is trying something new. They’re working towards implementing teaching science in every classroom as part of their school improvement program. This year, the school is ...

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 ...

As a student teacher I witnessed extreme inequalities in how science is communicated and taught at California elementary schools. My first teaching experience was as a STEM (science, technology, ...