The deadline to apply to become a Lego Master Educator is fast approaching. Applications for the program are due April 16.
04/03/2018
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Amazon is committing $50 million to computer science education in the United States with new programs supporting high school and early undergraduate students, including financial aid to help schools bring AP CS courses to their students.
04/02/2018
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More than half, 55 percent, of STEM classroom interactions are lectures, according to a new study from University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher Marilyne Stains. The study looked at 550 faculty as they taught more than 700 undergraduate STEM courses in more than 2,000 classes at 25 institutions in the United States and Canada.
04/02/2018
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MIT and the Lemelson Foundation will award up to 15 "InvenTeams" grants of $10,000 each. Applications are due in a week!
04/02/2018
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Education advocates Peter and Paul Reynolds argue the urgency developing creativity in students, of moving the emphasis away from standardized testing and breaking the cycle of "creativity crushing" in schools.
03/28/2018
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Nearly all, 85 percent, of educators and policymakers in the United States, say they think creative problem solving is a very important skill for students to learn in school, according to a new survey. At the same time, 84 percent of educators and and 68 percent of policymakers surveyed said that there is not enough emphasis on creative problem solving in American education.
03/28/2018
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You don't have to wait until a child takes his or her first math or science class to begin STEM education. It can actually start even before a child turns 1.
03/27/2018
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A curriculum direcrtor shares her successful professional development strategy for preparing educators to teach project-based learning.
03/27/2018
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Researchers at Cornell University are working on software that will help math teachers understand what their students were thinking that led them to finding incorrect answers.
03/26/2018
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MIT and the Lemelson Foundation will award up to 15 "InvenTeams" grants of $10,000 each. Applications are due in less than a month.
03/26/2018
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Three-hundred people applied for the jobs. Those chosen will join a group of 38 other educators on the panel. Over half have identified engineering as an area of content experience, a high-need area for the focus of the Science panel's work, and about half of the new peer reviewers have spent more than a decade as classroom teachers.
03/21/2018
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