My colleague Sean Cavanagh, who covers math and science here at Education Week, recently wrote an article about science labs in elementary schools. According to the story, although science standards ...

Elementary school science students in Leigh Ann Anderson’s classes skip the textbooks and get straight to the experiments. Four fourth graders huddle over short magnetic wires attached to the top and ...

Baking bread is about more than mixing ingredients, kneading dough, and cooking at the right temperature—it's about math, science, and reading, too. That was the lesson fourth-graders learned last ...

Science is always advancing—but kids still need to start with the basics, from how animals are born to the way electricity flows. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, which measures ...