Critical thinking skills have become a top priority over recent years. Educators and employers are well aware of the importance of being able to really think, rather than just memorizing knowledge and procedures. The Next Generation Science Standards recognize this ...

Minnesota’s draft science education standards include language that would require state students be taught that climate change is a human-caused phenomenon — the first time such guidelines would finger human activity as the driver behind global warming ...

NGSS tasks students to redesign, rebuild and tweak projects as many times as it takes, and to explore open-ended questions. Wyoming Junior High started using the MiSTAR curriculum as a pilot program last school year ...