NGSS Early Implementers is a six-year initiative created to help eight California school districts and two charter management organizations, supported by WestEd's K-12 Alliance, implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Administrators need learning opportunities if they are to adequately understand the substantial shifts of the Next…

The Quality Elementary Science Teaching (QuEST) program is designed to deliver high-quality professional development (PD) in science content to elementary school teachers. QuEST includes both content and pedagogical instruction combined with a controlled teaching experience situated within a larger professional development context. The design of…

Describes a six-week summer science institute for providing secondary students with research experience conducted at East Carolina University. (SL)

Review of the record of the National Science Foundation in Improving and updating the qualifications of science teachers. (Editor)

Explains the need to encourage minority students to choose physics as the field for advanced work. Institutes were organized during summer, enrolling minority students to enrich their backgrounds. Results have been encouraging and more extensive planning is underway. (PS)

Project Search trains teams of high school teachers in environmental monitoring methodology in a summer institute. The focus is on applying science to real-life learning. (SK)

The appreciable impact of the National Science Foundation on the education of scientists in the United States since the agency's founding was discussed. One of the major new challenges considered was the need for scientists and engineers to learn more about our society's economics, politics, and values. (Editor/RK)

In this document are 275 appendix tables for a follow-up study of participants in the 1957 National Science Foundation Summer Institute for mathematics and science teachers. Over 1,500 participants in the 1957 institutes were interviewed in 1960. The responses are tabulated in these appendices. Data are presented under such headings as: size of…

This study concerned whether a model designed to enchance educational accountability developed by university science educators could be used to enhance science educational accountability in a public middle school. Participants in the study were 39 teachers who attended a combined summer/inservice institute in the summer of 1973 at Ball State…

Provides detailed procedures and policies concerning the National Association of Geology Teachers--U.S. Geological Survey Cooperative Summer Field Training Program to provide professional geologic field experiences for undergraduate Geology majors. (SL)

The Science and Engineering Education (SEE) Directorate of the National Science Foundation was eliminated in 1981, but has been refunded in 1985. The current plans for developing elementary and middle school science and mathematics programs are outlined. (MD)

This bill was presented before the Congress of the United States of America to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. One section in the amendment focuses on improving basic programs operated by local educational agencies, and covers the activities and applications of the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC). This document…

Reports the results of a study relating to the effectiveness of the 1972 National Science Foundation summer institute at Ball State University. Participating teachers were motivated to increase, in their own teaching, the level of emphasis given to 45 of 55 instructional topics stressed in the institute. (JR)

Faculty members at a large state university engaged in discussions of 21st century communication, new media, and the demands for new communication skills as they elected to establish a Communication across the Curriculum (CxC) program in 2005. Faculty leaders reviewed communication theory (e.g., from McLuhan to Kress), best practices from other…