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Act, the sweeping measure sets priorities for research programmes at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It has drawn sharp criticism from science organizations, which say that the plan would limit the agencies' ability to fund the most promising research, and from the White House.
future, Google's Calico project promises to extend our life span. But talk to a scientist in a research lab almost anywhere and you are likely to hear that the edifice of American innovation rests on an 
Incoming AAAS President and former Congressman Rush Holt explains how his tenure in the US House of Representatives has prepared him for steering the Association's well-established science advocacy efforts. 
adopting the common core. But many faces have changed since then in the big chairs occupied by the governors, state commissioners, and state board members who gave it the green light. That's why two Washington-based groups think it's time for a refresher course.
Appendix D is subtitled: All standards, all students. Science for all students should be at the core of NGSS implementation for those states that have adopted the NGSS and for those that consider adoption. 
thousands of stars in the night sky. The biting cold of a New England winter did not convince my lab instructor that we should stay inside. I was only taking Introduction to Astronomy to get my lab requirement out of the way. Why was I standing outside in this frigid air? I was a humanities person, an art person. I was NOT a science person.
