A strange thing happens around this time of year at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry: busloads of school kids flock to one laboratory. The Museum of Science and Industry is a magical place if ...

The fourth graders stepped into a darkened annex to the Keystone Science School dining hall on Wednesday, took their seats and listened as programs intern Andrea Seymour talked to them about rods and ...

Students in the 4th and 8th grades are showing more mastery of science, but high school seniors’ scores on the assessment known as “the nation’s report card” stayed flat from 2009. The results ...

Although it was summer break, Suzanne Zettle couldn’t stay out of the classroom. The 4th-grade teacher from Patterson Elementary School took part in a Fermilab course with the hopes of bringing what ...

Jim Violette’s fourth-grade students at Salem Lutheran School in Orange filed into their classroom after recess, got out their science workbooks and prepared for the day’s lesson. “Please turn to page ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- American fourth-graders are performing better than they were four years ago in math and reading, but students four years older show no such progress, a global study released Tuesday ...