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 ...

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 ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - Proposed state science standards could remove the phrase ‘climate change’ and some mentions of evolution. The Iowa Department of Education held a public feedback meeting with ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Teachers across the state will soon have more vague teaching standards for topics like climate change and evolution. Thursday the state board of education approved the ...

Gaston County Schools is implementing new science standards that were adopted by the North Carolina State Board of Education in July 2023. Shannon Hullett, elementary director for the district said at ...

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 ...

ODESSA, Texas — Nearly four years ago, the State Board of Education approved the new science Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for K-12 public schools. The Texas Education Agency expects ...

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 ...

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 ...