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"It’s guaranteed something will go wrong," she said. "It won’t fall apart, but you have to problem solve. The kids are teaching each other. It’s fun to watch and they don’t even know they’re learning."

Are students in India and China required to go to school longer than U.S. students?

Hopefully the curriculum that is developed and teachers that are trained at the Academy will get rolled out into high schools all over the city in the coming years.

The K-12 Alliance uses its enormous reach to improve the image of computing and the teaching of foundational computing skills.

Teaching others requires the high school students to concentrate and really think about each step involved

If students are to truly understand how science works, all three parts of the framework — the key practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas — need to be integrated.

Since she began ‘flipping’ lectures and homework assignments, high school science teacher Shelley Wright has noticed something: the number of students failing her course has dropped from the usual three to zero. Departmental exam scores are higher, too.

In 2011 three young women swept the top prizes of the first Google Science Fair. At TEDxWomen Lauren Hodge, Shree Bose and Naomi Shah described their extraordinary projects– and their route to a passion for science.

"When you ask the question, you feel like it’s your job to get the answer, and you want to figure it out."

"Over a lifetime, the earnings of workers who have majored in engineering, computer science or business are as much as 50 percent higher than the earnings of those who major in the humanities, the arts, education and psychology."