My colleague Sean Cavanagh, who covers math and science here at Education Week, recently wrote an article about science labs in elementary schools. According to the story, although science standards ...

Another parent chaperone, Chad Curry, joined his fourth grader Izaire Curry on Wednesday’s trip. Curry said he grew up visiting the Peabody in the late 1980s and fondly remembered the woolly mammoth — ...

Many elementary students are on a “starvation diet of thin and infrequent science instruction,” according to a new report from Change the Equation. More than half of 4th graders spend less than three ...

California's fourth- and eighth-graders are getting smarter in science, showing the largest achievement gains in the nation, but still scoring well below their peers in other states, according to a ...

KOCHVILLE TWP, MI-- Saginaw Valley State University has announced it will be helping to introduce eighty-two 4th graders to computer science concepts. In a release shared by the university, the “Hour ...