To someone passing by, it may look like the students in Blue Lake Elementary’s morning learning lab are playing computer games. Dozens of students sit down at computers or iPads before school starts ...
When: Lampeter-Strasburg school board meeting, April 7. What happened: In a unanimous vote, the board adopted new textbooks for elementary and middle school science as well as for accelerated ninth ...
THE contents of this book are quite unlike anything a reader would be led to expect from the indication of the title, as ordinarily understood in Great Britain. The preface explains that the volume is ...
The Sarasota County School Board got straight to business at its first meeting of the new year. The board advertised the district’s recommended instructional materials for K-12 science. Tuesday’s ...
La Cañada Unified School Board members halted the approval process of two elementary-level science textbooks Tuesday after one parent, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, claimed the ...
The third-graders looked puzzled when asked what they liked best about science. No answer. OK, then, next question: "What is science?" a visitor asked the children in a hallway at Bessie Carmichael ...
Problem: Curiosity is broadly distributed. Opportunity is not. Solution: Bay Area volunteers are bringing science experiments into the low-income classrooms, thrilling youngsters with hands-on ...
If textbooks are the meat and potatoes of education, then schoolbook publishers are edging toward vegetarianism. Prompted by years of sagging profits, increasing costs and tighter school budgets, ...