Posted on Tue, Jul. 15, 2008
A consortium of Pennsylvania colleges, including Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania, have received a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to improve science instruction for middle-school students over the next five years.
Nonprofit organizations, state agencies and middle schools also will be part of the consortium, which will create a national center for the work, called the 21st Century Center for Cognition and Science Instruction, Temple announced yesterday.
The group will use advancements in cognitive science to improve student learning in science, technology, engineering and math.
Temple's Center for Spatial Intelligence and Learning and Penn's Graduate School of Education and Institute for Research in Cognitive Science will be among those leading the effort.
- Susan Snyder
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