Around the country, science instruction is changing—students are being asked to make models, analyze data, construct arguments, and design solutions in ways that far exceed schools’ previous goals.

Scores on national science tests fit a disturbing pattern of declining performance among low-achievers, and the officials who oversee the test have provided conflicting explanations. Recent results ...

With a federal testing deadline looming, now is the time for states to improve their science assessments. Beginning just three years from now, with the 2007-08 school year, states will be required ...

Eighth grade students’ science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the first year the national test was given. The latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress ...

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