The House Education Committee's said that public schools should spend 85 percent of its funding in the classroom. But unless more revenue is provided, there will be less money to provide custodial, maintenance, secretarial, health and other supports services. Teachers will be doing more than just educating their students if this happens.

Learning Resources' newest offering brings basic coding skills to kids as young as four. The pets in Meet the Coding Critters introduce real coding concepts through fun and interactive storybook coding adventures.

Use great fiction as a launch pad to help your ravenous and reluctant learners find that spark of curiosity. In the "Andy Weir and the Unintended Consequences of Curiosity" essay by Gillian King-Cargile, the STEM Read director at Northern Illinois University, find out how asking good questions can lead to great things for your students.

The tension between demographics and academic excellence is prompting scholars to take a closer look at the data on scores and grades and how well entry exams, such as the one associated with New York City's elite public high schools, predict achievement. But one researcher thinks the most consistent bias might be against gender.

Pairs of seventh-grade history students at S.C. Lee Junior High School reviewed their Texas history lessons through a high-tech scavenger hunt. Teachers put up QR Codes that students scanned with tablets to read a question whose answer led them to another code location.

Dyer County Schools debuted its new mobile STEAM lab, the Steamroller. The mobile unit is expected to provide roughly 1,500 K5 students with an opportunity to learn fundamental engineering and science concepts and critical thinking skills while working with a team.

With a three-year, $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant, North Carolina State College of Education will develop and test an e-mentoring program that pairs underrepresented high school students with engineering majors of similar background, race, gender and experiences studying at at the college in an effort to improve students' attitudes about and participation in STEM.

As artificial intelligence becomes more mainstream, it offers many opportunities for students to learn skills they can use in the workforce. It also offers incentives for more companies to move into the K12 STEM education space—to meet a need and reap a profit. Except, there isn't much AI curriculum in STEM education.