| | | | | | Education Week Reviews New NBC Comedy "AP Bio" About a Disgruntled Teacher | Education Week's Mark Walsh analyzes NBC's new sitcom AP Bio, about a failed Harvard philosophy professor who retreats to teaching high school biology. Walsh writes, "If I had only watched the pilot episode, I would have my doubts about how this premise would develop. But I screened the first four episodes, and as I watched those, the show grew on me as smart and insightful about the modern American college-prep high school". Read the article. | |
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| | | | | | Why Don't STEM Majors Vote as Much as Others? | There's no shortage of talk about the need to get more students to choose STEM majors. But a growing body of research, including research from at the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education at Tufts University, indicates there might also be a need to get more STEM majors to go to the polls. Read the article featured in The Conversation. |
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| Would Giving STEM Teachers More Leeway to Experiment Keep Them in Schools? | Unlike science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professionals who have the flexibility to pursue learning wherever it may take them, STEM teachers are often bound by curriculum and their administrators. This week, the national network 100Kin10, which has pledged to train and retain 100,000 STEM teachers by 2021, announced $1 million in funding to five groups to try to answer this question: How can we empower teachers to experiment—and even fail—in their instruction? Read the article featured in Education Week. Check out the Education News Roundup for a selection of the week's top education news stories. |
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| | | Anchoring Phenomena for Middle Level | These real-world anchoring phenomena and supporting materials for physical and life science units reflect a range of resources, including still images, video clips, demonstrations, and student investigations. They can be the foundation for NGSS–supported units in Forest Ecology, Light and Color, Evolution by Natural Selection, Static Electricity, Air Pressure/Phases of Matter, Density, Photosynthesis, and more. |
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| | Physics in Your Future | Inspire girls to pursue physics careers with this booklet from the American Physics Society. Profiles of women in the field show how a physics background can lead to a variety of fulfilling careers in science. |
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