Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Science scores for Iowa's elementary and middle school students have rebounded to prepandemic levels, new statewide testing shows.

With how busy so many of us are, it's easy to forget the gems we have in our community. Spring break is a good opportunity to ...

Watch a bald eagle family in its nest Decorah, Iowa, via Explore Live Nature Cams on YouTube. IRA FLATOW: This is Science Friday. I’m Ira Flatow, coming to you today from Iowa Public Radio in Ames, ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Following vocal criticism of an initial revision to Iowa’s science education standards that stripped ...

Second grade teacher Melissa Cahalan works with second-graders Da’Neyah Boothe (right) and Stella Meyers (center) Sept. 14 on an exercise with BeeBots -- robots used as a teaching tool in computer ...

AMES, Iowa – It was spring break week at Grundy Center Middle School. And yet there were 15 or so students in Heather Gutknecht’s science classroom for a few hours each and every weekday afternoon.

We climate science experts at the University of Iowa strongly advise Iowa’s Department of Education to maintain its existing educational standards on climate change. Climate change and human influence ...

Under a bill in the Iowa Senate, schools would be required to align their reading instruction with strategies supported by what is known as the science of reading. It would also put Iowa among a ...