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Terminology can impede thorough understanding. I am very interested in this thread but would like to be sure that Common Core Standards (always using caps in this thread) are the same thing as 'Next Generation Science Standards' (also in caps so might not be the same as the CCS?)
Anne Hance
Explorit Science Center, Davis, CA
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On May 7, 2012, at 12:51 PM, "Storksdieck, Martin" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> All,
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> I can certainly understand concern about (bad) testing, and there are some legitimate questions about the role of standards in an education system, but I would also want to point out that each state currently has standards, and that goals for what students should be learning are set by someone. The question is: are these good and achievable goals?
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> There is nothing more powerful than seeing for yourself. The first draft of the Next Generation Science Standards is scheduled to be released this Friday, May 11. This first draft of the new science standards will be online for public comment for three weeks, until June 1. The Next Generation Science Standards are based on the National Research Council (NRC) Framework for K–12 Science Education, which describes the major practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas that all students should be familiar with by the end of high school, and provides an outline of how these practices, concepts, and ideas should be developed across the grade levels. Science educators, supervisors, administrators—in fact anyone interested in the future course and direction of science education, including informal educators—are encouraged to carefully read these new science standards and submit comments online to Achieve (the nonprofit organizing the 26 states who are jointly developing the standards) during the comment period.
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> For more information you can go to
> www.nextgenscience.org
> and
> www.nsta.org/about/standardsupdate
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> Again: this is not only an opportunity to find out what it is we are talking about, but it is also a chance to provide much needed input, by any one of you individually, or as whatever group and organization you represent.
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> Cheers,
> Martin
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