…chair of our board in 2008 to lead the presidential search committee. Penny is co-editor of New Frontiers in Formative Assessment (Harvard Education Press), which includes two chapters by Concord…
…Textbook publishers will embed them in new e-books. There is much room for creativity and partnerships here. The significance of this advance struck me at a recent conference on educational…
…the vast, thick layers that make up Earth’s surface. In activity 2, Eruptions everywhere, students use two new embedded interactives to examine locations where new rocks form on Earth and…
Well, it seems our initial return to blogging suffered a slight setback. But we’ve been pretty hard at work over the past year on our new look, new website and…
…an R&D lab. We try new things.) But writing things from scratch poses a challenge. We want the molecular dynamics simulations run by NextGen MW to run “the same” as…
…our research projects, testing beta software and curriculum, and providing invaluable feedback about real students in real classrooms. This year, we are proud to announce our new Teacher Ambassador program,…
Concord Consortium senior scientist Charles Xie and his team’s Infrared Street View proposal has won the JUMP Competition for new ideas in saving energy in homes based on smartphone technologies….
The day/night cycle of an SUT The solar updraft tower is a new-concept clean energy power plant for generating electricity from the sun. Sunshine falling on a greenhouse collector structure…
…from a range of organizations, including UC Berkeley, TERC, EDC, Desmos, SRI, Exploratorium, New York Hall of Science, Harvard’s Institute for Applied Computational Science, Lawrence Hall of Science, and Tuva…
…— they must consider the sun path in four seasons and the existing buildings in the neighborhood as the design constraints to optimize solar penetration to the new buildings and…