What are the 10 greatest inventions of our time?
A competition sponsored in 1913 by Scientific American asked for essays on the 10 greatest inventions, Scientific American reports.
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Save our science: How to inspire a new generation of scientists
The artist Pablo Picasso once said that all children are born artists and that the trick is to stay that way as an adult, Scientific American reports.
TED Education wants your help bringing cool science to the classroom
At TED Education, we're obsessed with learning, Scientific American reports.
To attract more girls to STEM, bring more storytelling to science
Women and girls are historically underrepresented in STEM fields and much has been written lately about why girls in school seem disinterested in these areas.
More belt-tightening in store for NASA as STEM education programs face consolidation
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has just released President Obama’s budget request for 2014. It will take some time for the budget’s full impacts…
Top universities will help train STEM teachers
A group of Tier 1 research universities -- the Stanfords, Harvards and MITs of the world - will join the White House-led effort to train 100,000 new math…
Hanging with smarties ups GPA
Schools are well-known reservoirs of contagion where students share all sorts of communicable conditions: coughs, colds, flu, you name it. But germs aren’t the only things kids can…
The Lizard Project: Why scientists and teachers should work together for science outreach
My high school students recently did something that rarely happens in a science classroom they did science. Although, inquiry based instruction has long been a science education buzz…
From STEM to STEAM: Science and art go hand-in-hand
In the wake of the recent recession, we have been consistently apprised of the pressing need to revitalize funding and education in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering,…
How to fix our ‘mediocre to awful’ science standards
Americans have grown accustomed to bad news about student performance in math and science. On a 2009 study administered by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 15-year-olds…
Math teachers feel they’re poorly prepared
One thing that most of us remember best about school is our teachers. Thus, when solutions are proposed for reforming American schools in response to critical reports or…
Could this be a way to speed up learning?
One of the most difficult tasks to teach Air Force pilots who guide unmanned attack drones is how to pick out targets in complex radar images. Pilot training…