A National Science Foundation scholarship will assess how students from two liberal arts colleges fare as science and math teachers in a “high-need” district.

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Teachers increasingly use video games to teach science. E-books, netbooks and interactive whiteboards are likely to become more common in classrooms as well.

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The Massachusetts company that makes Roomba vacuum cleaners aims to introduce robots into the classroom.

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Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., topped this year’s U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best High Schools rankings. It has come in first every year since the magazine started ranking high schools three years ago.

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WASHINGTON, DC –The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science announced that high school and middle school science departments are now eligible to obtain surplus lab equipment from the DOE National Laboratories.

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Following the White House launch of “Educate to Innovate,” a campaign to encourage student involvement in science, technology, engineering and math, plans are taking shape for a National Lab Day in early May and two student competitions.

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During the week of December 6 – 12, educators, students and parents are invited to participate in Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek), designed to raise awareness of computing’s role in today’s global information society and promote in-depth computer science education for K-12 students.

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On Wed., December 9, 2009, at 7 p.m., “Whiz Kids,” a documentary that follows battling 16-year-olds in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search, shows at the National Academy of Sciences Auditorium (2100 C St., N.W., Washington, D.C.). The event is free, but reservations and photo ID are required.

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The Champaign, Illinois school district is piloting a new teacher evaluation plan that focuses on how effectively the teacher is helping his or her students learn, rather than how the teacher presents the lessons.

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