ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EXEMPLAR 1: SEEDS OF SCIENCE/ROOTS OF READING Jacqueline Barber, Lawrence Hall of Science at University of California, Berkeley, shared her insights into developing Seeds of ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Science is a way of knowing about the world. At once a process, a product, and an ...

Schools still face obstacles with the popular approach, including that implementation and teacher supports focus mainly on younger students.

Every scientist should rightly denounce the pervasive scientific illiteracy in American society. Yet, genuine scientific literacy comes from a changed perspective of thought and not from scientific ...

Science literacy is a crucial skill for modern students. It equips them with the knowledge to critically evaluate information, understand scientific concepts, and make informed decisions in a rapidly ...

Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy instruction in schools nationwide. After decades of debate over the most effective ...

Every day, many of us wake up and reach for our phones first (or in my case, glasses first, then phone). We open up Instagram or TikTok and are bound to see some form of news as we scroll. We get ...

A recent correspondent shared a memorable quotation from the Nobel Prize winner Ernest Rutherford: “That which is not Physics is stamp collecting.” In other words, that which isn’t science is a ...

When districts adopt evidence-based practices like Structured Literacy, it’s often with a surge of excitement and momentum. Yet the real challenge lies not in the initial adoption, but in sustaining ...

The more time you spend on social media, the likelier you are to have come across a viral post that seems too strange to be true. Brief scientific literacy interventions, especially those that focus ...

The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society, by James Marriott, Doubleday, 208 pages, $26 The last few years have seen a glut of sky-is-falling books about kids. Jonathan Haidt's ...

A new conspiracy theory, promoted by Sen. Rand Paul, vilifies Dr. Fauci and attempts to tie him to the notion that the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was engineered in and leaked from the Wuhan ...