Rather than have students memorize definitions and facts about a science topic such as light, an effective first grade teacher today would have students investigate various types of objects under ...

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Practice-based approaches to teacher education should emphasize strategies that help teacher candidates centralize student thinking in instructional practice while providing a rationale for why ...

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In a sense, it sounds like that’s another facet of computational thinking that’s more relevant in the age of AI—the abstractions of statistics and probability in addition to algorithms and data ...

I admit that “magical thinking” is not a great term for what I was writing about in The 2012 Election and the Super-Conscious Mind. In that post, I wrote that many people saw the contribution of ...

Over the last year or two, the headlines have been a bit depressing for those who believe that public policy and education should be guided by scientific findings, rather than short-sighted ...

Experts look at ways to share existing supplies more efficiently for water resiliency. Water resilience is the goal of a team of experts planning water use in North Carolina. The goal is to find ways ...

The chief kind of illiteracy faced today isn’t the inability to read and write. It’s more insidious. It’s mathematical and statistical, financial, geographic, historical, psychological, cultural, ...

Nov. 8, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...