Sixty-five years ago, a metal sphere the size of a basketball caught the U.S. science, military and intelligence communities by surprise. Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, launched into orbit ...

Students in a first grade classroom observe bees during a science lesson. Credit: Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

HAMPTON, VA. – Forty new and future educators are in school themselves this summer learning how to excite youngsters about science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Thirty university ...

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 ...

Only about one-third of elementary school students in the U.S. are reading at grade level, according to the recent National Assessment of Educational Progress. In response, many schools are rethinking ...

The Trump administration is slashing the funding for new projects focused on STEM education and has terminated hundreds of grants focused on equitable STEM education. This will have enormous effects ...

Hopefully these young minds will grasp onto some of these concepts and will go home and around the dinner table talk to their parents about it." ...

Climate change education in schools is sporadic and limited, despite student interest and the growing urgency of the issue as temperatures rise and weather patterns become more severe. That’s a ...

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased. By Dana Goldstein For decades, ...

Completing the elementary education undergraduate program enables candidates to teach in self-contained classrooms in grades one through six. To teach in specific subject areas in departmentalized ...