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Business, Research and Innovation

U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance In the Sciences.
William J. Broad. New York Times. May 3, 2004

Are We Losing Our Edge? The U.S. still leads the world in scientific innovation. But years of declining investment and fresh competition from abroad threaten to end our supremacy.
Michael D. Lemonick. Time (Feb 13, 2006): p22. (4075 words)

A Corporate Science Project; U.S. business needs to help turn out more math and science grads if it is to stay competitive.
Craig R. Barrett. Business Week (Dec 19, 2005): p108. (709 words)

Math + science = innovation, but US lags in the equation.
Robert Weisman. Boston Globe. (Nov 27, 2005)

Industry And Academia Weigh In.(Panel Discussion).
Business Week 3903 (Oct 11, 2004): p228. (485 words)
A panel discussion with the Council on Competitiveness -- an organization of CEOs, university presidents, and labor leaders – regarding their recommendations for maintaining the US' role as a innovator in the global economy.

Learning and Child Development

Laboratory instruction in the service of science teaching and learning: reinventing and reinvigorating the laboratory experience.
William McComas. The Science Teacher (Oct 2005): p24(6). (3785 words)

Meet The Best And Brightest; Forty gifted U.S. high school science students told us what matters to them.
Otis Port and John Carey. Business Week (March 28, 2005): p88. (2476 words)

Getting Girls to the Lab Bench; To remain competitive, the U.S. must close the gender gap in science.
Catherine Arnst. Business Week (Feb 7, 2005): p42. (664 words)

Scientific teaching.(Education).
Jo Handelsman, Diane Ebert-May, Robert Beichner, Peter Bruns, Amy Chang, Robert DeHaan, Jim Gentile, Sarah Lauffer, James Stewart, Shirley M. Tilghman and William B. Wood. Science (April 23, 2004): p521(2). (1934 words)
Some leading academics are calling on U.S. universities to teach science the way science is done -- by involving students in the process of discovery rather than plunking them down in lecture halls. The article presents fresh evidence that learning improves when lectures are mostly replaced by hands-on involvement.

Statewide and Local

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Most Students in Big Cities Lag Badly in Basic Science.
Diana Jean Schemo. New York Times Nov 16 2006

Study flunks state science standards.
Kavan Peterson. Stateline.org Dec 07, 2005
Nearly half the states flunked an examination of statewide science standards for elementary and high schools.

Hands-on science bus rolls around Philly. (Curriculum Update: The latest developments in math, science, language arts and social studies).
Melissa Ezarik. District Administration 41.8 (August 2005): p65(1). (400 words)

U.S. registers slight gains in science, math Eighth-graders improve, but fourth-graders stall in global survey.
AP (Dec 12, 2004)
Results of the 2003 Trends in International Math and Science Study (TIMSS)

Hands-On Learning

General News

Defending Inquiry. (use of inquiry in elementary science).
Chris Ohana. Science and Children (Sept 2006): p64-65.
A succinct definition of inquiry based science teaching and citations of evidence of its effectiveness.

What's the Right Formula? Pressure from new tests leads educators to debate how best to teach science.
Robert Tomsho. The Wall Street Journal (Jan 19,2006): pA9.

Link Science & Literacy. Watch your students' test scores skyrocket in both reading and science with these teacher-tested, winning ideas.
Meg Lundstrom. Scholastic Instructor (Mar 2005).

Unlearning Bad Science. Despite superficial textbooks, rote teaching, and a shortage of project-based learning, there is hope for science education.
John Merrow. Education Week (Feb 23, 2005).

Policy and Standards

General Policy

U.S. Scientists Weigh Up Election Results.
Roxanne Khamsi. NewScientist.com, (Nov 9 2006).

Science and Math Education Part of Major New Initiative Unveiled During the President's State of the Union Address to the Nation.
NSTA Express (Feb 6, 2006).

No Child Left Behind

Ten big effects of the No Child Left Behind act on public schools.
Jack Jennings and Diane Stark Rentner. Phi Delta Kappan 88.2 (Oct 2006): p110.

Lawsuit challenging 'No Child Left Behind' thrown out. (WASHINGTON COMMENTARY)
Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Dec 15, 2005): p7(1). (284 words)

An ammunition dump?(WASHINGTON COMMENTARY)
Anne C. Lewis. Phi Delta Kappan 87.4 (Dec 2005): p260.

The politics of accountability: the rise and fall of goals 2000
Benjamin Michael Superfine. American Journal of Education (Nov 2005): p10(34). (15211 words)

New report details the growing dissatisfaction with NCLB. (No Child Left Behind Act of 2001)(Brief Article).
Ellen Ullman. District Administration (Oct 2005): p22(1). (193 words)

No Child Left Behind and Science Education

Report Calls for Improvement in K-8 Science Education. Valerie Strauss. Washington Post (Sept 22, 2006) pA9.
National Research Council report says that education reform has produced few results and is based on false premises about learning.

No child left behind and science education: opportunities, challenges, and risks.
Ronald W. Marx and Christopher J. Harris. The Elementary School Journal 106.5 (May 2006): p467(11)

Looking for a Lab-Coat Idol.(Cover/Nation/Science In School)(math and science education).
Rebecca Winters Keegan. Time 167.7 (Feb 13, 2006): p26. (1140 words)

Do social and behavioral characteristics targeted by preventive interventions predict standardized test scores and grades? (academic achievement prediction).
Charles B. Fleming, Kevin P. Haggerty, Richard F. Catalano, Tracy W. Harachi, James J. Mazza and Diana H. Gruman. Journal of School Health (Nov 2005): p342(8). (6082 words)

Difficult Lessons. (National Assessment of Educational Progress)
Arlyn Tobias Gajilan. Time (Oct 31, 2005): p2. (289 words)

Five Myths ... crying out for debunking. (No Child Left Behind Act of 2001).
Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters. National Review (Oct 24, 2005): p49. (1602 words)

Teaching Science to Middle School Students with Learning Problems. (No Child Left Behind Act of 2001).
Marcee Steele. Science Scope (Oct 2005): p50-51. (1422 words)

ELLs: Children Left Behind in Science Class.(English Language Learners ).
Clara Lee Brown and Michael Bentley. Academic Exchange Quarterly (Fall 2004): p152(6). (3185 words)

Ready or not: if your district is finally getting its head above water in meeting NCLB's English and math requirements, get ready for the next wave. Science requirements start next year and you may already be behind. (Cover Story).
Rebecca Sausner. District Administration (August 2004): p32(5). (2642 words)

Preparing elementary education majors to teach science using an inquiry-based approach: the Full Option Science System.
Fred R. Mangrubang. American Annals of the Deaf (Summer 2004): p290(14).

Leaving no child behind in science education. (Last Word).
Scott Jackson Dantley. Black Issues in Higher Education 21.8 (June 3, 2004): p120(1). (586 words)

Lesson adaptations and accommodations: working with native speakers and English language learners in the same science classroom.
Diana C. Rice, N. Eleni Pappamihiel and Vickie E. Lake. Childhood Education 8 (Spring 2004): p121(7). (4128 words)
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