Globally, the U.S. is at risk of declining economic competitiveness due to its continuing lower levels of educational attainment in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The U.S.

F. Chris Curran has received funding from the AERA Grants Program with support from the National Science Foundation. The annual back-to-school season is filled with high hopes for making new friends, ...

Low-income and minority children score much lower on national 8th-grade science tests than their white and more advantaged peers, but those gaps already exist before kids start kindergarten.

Back when Grant Hosford's older daughter was in first grade, she signed up for an extracurricular class, building robots with a programmable Lego toy called Mindstorms. Hosford, a dot-com entrepreneur ...

Moving her finger over the laptop trackpad, 6-year-old Lauren Meek drags and drops a block of code to build a set of instructions. She clicks the "run" button and watches as the character moves ...

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When children start kindergarten, sizable gaps in science knowledge already exist between whites and minorities—as well as between youngsters from upper-income and low-income families. And those ...

The committee was charged with examining the available evidence on science and engineering in preschool through elementary grades, including the approaches and strategies that can be used by teachers, ...

There was a sense of idealism in the air in 1971 when Craig Ramey, a psychologist in his late 20s with a newly minted Ph.D., took a job in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to launch what would become one ...

The block room at the Randolph School in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., is bustling with preschool builders. One boy places a tall, wood, cross-shaped block under a newly erected archway, explaining to ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. First, research on science and engineering education has focused largely on middle and ...