Ninety-seven teams from 28 Colorado schools participated in last week's car competitions hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
May 21, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Environmental education programs that took middle school students outdoors to learn helped minority students close a gap in environmental literacy, according to research from North Carolina State University.
Mar 22, 2013
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Americans are getting married at ever-older ages, and a new report says this trend may be partly responsible for the shrinking of the middle class.
Mar 15, 2013
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(AP)—The only state to provide laptop computers to public school students statewide is negotiating a new contract that can be used by other states interested in following suit.
Mar 14, 2013
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Amid a sea of gray beards and walking canes, a small voice piped up, "Hey, who moved my NXT?" Adjusting his thick-rimmed faux reading glasses and taped-on Groucho moustache, the 5th grader took off in search ...
Jan 24, 2013
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(Phys.org)—NASA has named the site where twin agency spacecraft impacted the moon Monday in honor of the late astronaut, Sally K. Ride, who was America's first woman in space and a member of the probes' miss ...
Dec 18, 2012
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A research team consisting of a University of Arizona graduate student, about 40 middle school students and a UA research lab has undertaken the first systematic study looking at how much plant leaves shrink ...
Nov 20, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Text messaging may offer tweens a quick way to send notes to friends and family, but it could lead to declining language and grammar skills, according to researchers.
Jul 26, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Fourth grade students from the Emily Dickinson ...
Mar 23, 2012
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Middle school boys rated reading more valuable as an activity after two months of using an e-reader, according to a new study.
Mar 22, 2012
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The School of Education at Virginia Tech and the College of Education at University of Kentucky were awarded $1.3 million from the National Science Foundation to implement and evaluate an inquiry-based after-school ...
Feb 13, 2012
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A program built around the concept that kids can and want to reduce violence and improve their neighborhoods led to lower crime rates, better upkeep on homes and more students who said they learned to resolve conflicts without ...
Jan 18, 2012
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New research findings reported in the October 2011 issue of Educational Researcher highlight differences between LGBTQ- and straight-identified youth in health outcomes and educational equity. The peer-reviewed scholarly ...
Oct 12, 2011
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After 17 years of researching traumatic stress with war-afflicted populations (veterans and civilians) and job stress in the medical profession, Teresa McIntyre, a research professor in the department of psychology ...
May 25, 2011
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Knowing how long a good experience will last makes it better, but being aware of the duration of an unpleasant event makes it worse, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. But people usually predic ...
May 09, 2011
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