PROF. JEFFERY PARKER is to be congratulated on having produced an extremely well-written, well-considered, and original class-book. The teaching of so-called “elementary biology” has, in consequence ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- By developing lessons about cocaine, amphetamines, drug testing and, nerve gas, a pharmacology professor and a chemistry teacher have discovered that they can grab the attention of ...

The first-year introductory biology sequence provides a crucial foundation for students' careers. Some groups, such as first-generation college students (FGCS), lag behind their non-first-generation ...

As any teacher knows, students need to be engaged with learning to absorb lessons in any meaningful way. Otherwise they can become distracted, disrupting everyone in the classroom and taking time away ...

MR. SHANN's endeavour to provide a course of biology suitable for lower fifth forms, and within the means of the average school, is not entirely satisfying. Rightly he relies on plants for the ...

When Stillwater Area High School junior Peter Jansen walks out of sight, his latest Advanced Placement Biology experiment starts "cheeping like crazy." That's because Perry, a three-week-old ...

In his column published in The Plain Dealer Jan. 4, “1925 offers lessons for the new year, if we listen,” Cal Thomas hearkens back to what he apparently considers the golden days of Calvin Coolidge’s ...

Kai Jensen has a fascination with viruses and bacteria. Rotavirus, his favorite, causes severe diarrhea. The 5-year-old's love of everything abhorrent came to life Saturday at the Oregon Museum of ...

A panel of experts has rejected concerns by religious conservatives in Texas that a high school biology textbook contained factual errors about evolution and a state board approved the book on ...