The fourth graders stepped into a darkened annex to the Keystone Science School dining hall on Wednesday, took their seats and listened as programs intern Andrea Seymour talked to them about rods and ...

Q:MY fourth-grader is required to participate in his schools science fair next month. His teacher has given us very little guidance except for one very general instruction sheet. How are we ever going ...

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Elementary school science students in Leigh Ann Anderson’s classes skip the textbooks and get straight to the experiments. Four fourth graders huddle over short magnetic wires attached to the top and ...

Science scores for Vermont’s fourth-graders slipped 6 percentage points in 2013. Only 47 percent of students scored at a proficient level or higher — the lowest percentage since 2008, when the NECAP ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. At a time when educators, elected officials, and corporate leaders are fretting over American students’ weak science skills, new test results show that the nation’s ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Some Portsmouth parents have launched a petition against Cradock Elementary School that levies a number of accusations, with one notably being the elimination of science from the ...

During which season of the year would a rabbit’s fur be thickest? A computer program called Aristo can tell you because it read about bears growing thicker pelts during winter in a fourth-grade study ...

Marcia C. Linn, Catherine Lewis, Ineko Tsuchida and Nancy Butler Songer Between 4th and 8th grade, American students fall behind on international norms, whereas Japanese students continue to perform ...

Minnesota's educators and business community have long stressed that the state's students need to be able to compete internationally when it comes to math and science. It seems they're doing just that ...