STEM educators and advocates will find much to cheer about in the widespread gains that U.S. eighth graders posted on the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress in Technology and Engineering Literacy (TEL) – the so-called nation’s report card.

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How do top-scoring science students in New England stack up against their counterparts in the mid-Atlantic or South? Not very well, according to a new analysis of state science assessments by Change the Equation. That’s because states set the bar for proficiency at widely varying levels.

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