science

From “flat Earth” to climate change denial, kids are deluged with fake science. Now teachers are fighting back

Posted on Thursday, March 5th, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Ines Novacic, CBS News
Date: 3/5/2020
Link: Complete Article

Melissa Lau, a middle-school science teacher in Piedmont, Oklahoma, with over 19 years of experience, stood by the doorway of her classroom as the last few of her first-period sixth grade students filed in and took their seats. “Hey guys, you need your papers from yesterday, and a pencil,” said Lau, launching into the day’s… [Read More]

Practical physics: Turners Falls students analyze speeds on tricky village roads

Posted on Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Max Marcus, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 1/21/2020
Link: Complete Article

TURNERS FALLS — The newest advisors to the Montague Selectboard may be a group of high school students. As the culminating project for the semester, the Turners Falls High School physics class studied two difficult turns on roads in Turners Falls to try to determine whether the speed limits should be changed or if special… [Read More]

States Raise the Bar for What It Means to Be Proficient in Reading and Math

Posted on Thursday, August 22nd, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Lauren Camera, US News & World Reports
Date: 8/21/2019
Link: Complete Article

NEARLY EVERY STATE IN the U.S. has raised the bar over the last decade for what it considers grade-level achievement in math and reading, according to a new study from the National Center on Education Statistics. Because each state sets its own standards for what proficiency in a subject means, researchers at the center developed a… [Read More]

Hands-on science for Sunderland children

Posted on Sunday, October 15th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Andy Castillo, The Greenfield Recorder
Date: 10/14/2017
Link: Complete Article

SUNDERLAND — When 11-year-old Sunderland Elementary School Student Tenzin Phelgay grows up, he wants to design a rocket capable of going to Mars. For now, he’s building marble rollercoasters in the Swampfield Drive school’s gymnasium as part of “Thinking Buddies,” an innovative science program, new in this year’s curriculum, that pairs older and younger students… [Read More]