By Joe Robertson, The Kansas City Star, Mo. (MCT) This is the future American school? Really? “You guys are killing me!” teacher Don Labonte shouts. He’s laughing. He’s roaring back over the din of sixth-grade science students who are hurling arguments over the custom-made board game that is the curriculum for the hour. But he [...]
Schools Focus On Career Readiness
December 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Maura Walz ATLANTA — When Tony Thaw was elected to Georgia’s Glynn County Board of Commissioners in 2003, he set out to solve a problem he says was preventing the county from realizing its full economic potential. “We have a deep port. We have I-95 running right through the middle. We have a beautiful [...]
National Park Service Expanding Reach Into STEM
December 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Agency plans to reach a fourth of U.S. students By Nora Fleming EdWeek Dense fog is slow to abate on this recent morning, as more than 200 6th graders scatter into small groups on the site of an old military camp in California’s Marin Headlands outside San Francisco. They are a mix of moods—eager, hesitant, [...]
Students Conduct Research In Bug-Based Neuroscience
November 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Sarah D. Sparks Neuroscientist Greg Gage’s classroom lessons on neural activation remind me of a mad scientist’s lab from one of those 1950s monster movies. Picture one gigantic Amazonian roach, carrying tiny circuits attached to its back and antennae, wandering left or right in response to student-led signaling. This “robo-roach” is just one of [...]
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