At Melbourne Elementary School in north-central Arkansas, time for science is a priority—even for the youngest students. Starting in kindergarten, teachers dedicate 30-40 minutes for the subject each ...

The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine will establish an Action Collaborative within which science education stakeholders at the national and state levels will develop ...

Corrected: A previous version of this story mischaracterized the size of achievement gaps in the chart below. The pandemic didn’t just affect students’ reading and math achievement—it brought a drop ...

Before adopting AI tools, it is important that schools think critically about whether these tools will further divorce students from how their brains are primed to learn. A teacher sits at a laptop ...

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge? The desire to learn is partly a preference for novelty: we ...