Local middle schoolers a part of national science experiement
For many kids, complex scientific formulas and theory fly in one ear and out the other because they have no idea when they’d use them in the real world. Paul Verhage, a graduate student at the Kansas University is attempting to change this, and he’s enlisted students at Tyee Middle School to help him out.

iPads in classroom provide 20 percent jump in math scores, study says
After a yearlong pilot program in California initiated by publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the math scores of students using iPads jumped 20 percent compared with classrooms that used traditional paper textbooks. (Credit: Apple) HMH Fuse: Algebra I was instituted at Amelia Earhart Middle School in the Riverside Unified School District as the world's first iPad-driven algebra curriculum ...

iPads in the classroom provide 20 percent jump in math scores, study says
After a yearlong pilot program, initiated by publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in California, it was found that students' math scores jumped 20 percent compared with classrooms that used traditional paper textbooks. (Credit: Apple) HMH Fuse: Algebra I was instituted at Amelia Earhart Middle School in the Riverside Unified School District as the world's first iPad-driven algebra curriculum ...

U.S lag in science, math a disaster in the making
Almost everyone, from educators to government officials to industry experts, laments the lackluster abilities and performance of our nations' students in science, technology, engineering and math (know as STEM education).

'Transformational moment; after N.J., gets waiver for No Child Left Behind law
President Obama freed New Jersey and nine other states from key parts of the much-maligned No Child Left Behind law on Thursday, opening the door for major changes in how local schools are judged.