In the past two days the New York Times has provided readers with six fascinating articles and discussions about online learning. One set is called Room for Debate: Can Young…
…Andrew A. Zucker, and Carolyn Staudt Measurement of Scientific Inquiry in the Elementary School Classroom: Challenges and Application. Monday, April 11, 2:15 p.m. New Orleans Marriott, Third Level, Mardi Gras…
…the basis for life in our solar system. New research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on April 4, 2011, shows that complex organic solids were…
Concord Consortium Research Results Shed Light on Evolution Learning and Scientific Argumentation Blog Post
…project presented their findings, validating new measures of students’ uncertainty and conditions of rebuttal, two useful but frequently neglected elements characterizing scientific arguments. This research, currently being prepared for submission…
…The temperature differential during that last warm period was much smaller than it is today, when Antarctica is a frozen tundra. New research suggests that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC),…
…Tautz at Würzburg University found a new type of role known as the heater bees. The heater bees are responsible for maintaining the temperature in the hive where young bees…
After the attacks of 9/11/2001 the federal government implemented new policies intended to protect people and institutions in the United States. A surprising policy requires education researchers conducting research under…
Warm millennium, that is. And Southern Hemisphere, that is. New research suggests that Earth will continue to warm into the year 3000, even if human-caused carbon dioxide emissions stop right…
…less on Earth’s moon than on Earth, without losing any of your mass. Scientists are currently using measurements of objects’ gravitational pulls to find new planets around stars. As a…
What does irrigation have to do with climate change? Possibly a lot. According to a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, irrigation has increased agricultural productivity by an amount…