Education and STEM news, features and articles

Sometimes you have to leave the world of science to become one of its greatest advocates.

The new journal will be online and publish multi-disciplinary articles that would make the cut at the highest-quality journals, but can't be published due to space constraints.

You may have regrets after Valentine's Day, but be open to understanding why.

In an age of too much testing, some schools are turning to mud puddles and play.

As numerous recent articles have warned, the population of science PhDs is steadily growing, while the number of available faculty jobs increases at a pace only a snail could envy.

If approved, new Texas textbook guidelines will equate faith-based concepts with science.

New standards will mean less memorization, more thinking in science class, say supporters. Even so, critics worry the standards for STEM classes will dumb down science education.