News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Each spring for the past nine years, members of the Sisters Science Club have sung this Judy Garland lyric as they began preparations for the annual Sisters Science Fair. Now that the Sisters School District has decided to suspend the Fair (hopefully for just a year), let’s consider the wondrous benefits of a community-wide science fair. First, for the students, the fair provides an opportunity unique in the District for students in all grades, K-12, to come together and interact in a way that is educational, competitive, a... Full story
Science is simply a way of exploring our world. With careful and rigorous instruction, Sisters students can develop skills of discovery and ways of analyzing evidence that will last a lifetime. But for teachers to identify what students need to know and the best ways to help them learn is complicated and rapidly changing. The challenge of science education became national news in 2012 when the Department of Homeland Security announced that foreign students graduating with a degree in any of 400 college programs could have... Full story
