Santa Barbara Charter School has secured a $5,000 grant from the Santa Barbara Education Foundation for its innovative Meaningful Metric Measurement for the Whole School initiative.

Disdain for the metric system is a peculiarly US American thing, alongside American football, chain restaurants, hot dog eating contests, more guns than people, and a car for every driver. My message ...

The unsuccessful drive to teach the metric system in schools presents a cautionary tale about teacher buy-in for common-core advocates, writes Jeanne Zaino. Leadership Back Leadership ...

“Metric is the assumed system of measurement in science,” Colby said. (The Common Core State Standards for mathematics include learning both metric and customary measurements.) ...

The students in Shanda Sears' eighth-grade science class at Vernon Johns Jr. High School in Petersburg are taking a hands-on approach to learning how to using the metric system. The classes conducted ...

When last encountered, the metric system was being rebuffed by an American public not all that interested in walking 1.61 kilometers for a Camel. But even as other icons from the 1970s try to come … ...

By 1960, the metric system had been expanded and modernized to cover aspects of all of Earth, ... “Once you overcome the hurdle of learning more units, it’s easy,” she explains.