Science Education

Professor Rivet: Learning Progressions: A New Way to Teach and Learn Science

A New Way to Teach and Learn Science

In Science magazine, Rutgers’ Ravit Duncan and TC’s Ann Rivet review radical proposed changes to K-12 science curricula.

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Professor Ann Rivet

Two education professors and experts on how children learn science have endorsed radical proposed changes in the nation’s K-12 science education standards. In an essay in the January 25 edition of Science, Ravit Duncan, an associate professor of science education at Rutgers’ Graduate School of Education; and Ann Rivet, an associate professor of science education at Teachers College, Columbia University, call on scientists to get behind proposed new standards and advocate for their adoption by the states.

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