As he assesses the small but growing effort to reverse the traditional order of high school science courses, Jay Labov, deputy director of the National Research Council's Center for Education, recalls ...

Columbia Public Schools and the University of Missouri received a $3 million government grant for a program called Physics First. "It makes sense to teach the basic science in a sense, the building ...

General Physics for Majors course designed by CU Boulder Professors Eric Cornell and Paul Beale shows students that the furthest reaches of science are built on fundamental concepts The Nobel laureate ...

A Feb. 4 letter suggested that physics should not be taught before chemistry and biology because it is more abstract. But a first course in physics is the least abstract of any first-year high school ...