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Dual-language classrooms are often praised and often doubted. The honest picture is more measured than either camp suggests.
The word shows up in every school brochure. Here is what it actually means, and how to tell a real change from a renamed one.
The standardized testing debate is really a question about fairness: same exam for everyone, but is the same exam measuring the same things?
The committees that protect study volunteers also add months to timelines. The trade-off is deliberate, but the delays have grown.
The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 set the route from federal grant to patent to licensed startup — and federal records track the paperwork far better than the outcomes.
Federal statistics show scientists born abroad make up a disproportionate share of the U.S. research workforce, especially at the doctoral level.
Two-year institutions train a large share of the nation's science technicians and serve as the entry ramp for transfer students who later earn STEM degrees.
Test-score declines from pandemic school closures were among the largest ever measured, and the newest national data show recovery has stalled well short of the starting line.
Since the 2013 Next Generation Science Standards, U.S. classrooms have been pushed toward students investigating rather than reciting, and the evidence behind that shift has a long paper trail.
Earning college credit in high school has grown into one of the largest accelerated-learning channels in the country, and research links it to higher completion rates.