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Common Core refers to the development of common K-12 education standards for English/Language Arts and Mathematics. Funded by private foundations, overseen by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and organized by Achieve Inc., Common Core is named that way because states who signed on to develop these standards agreed to overlap by 85% on what should be taught in these two subjects. Or, in other words, the governors agreed that they'd adopt 85% of the Common Core, unseen. Those are done, and 47 states are still signed on, and there is major investments going o right now to get the testing right.
Next Generation Science Standards is different. Here, again with private funding (from the Carnegie Corporation of New York), the National Research Council/National Academies convened a panel to develop a consensus study on a Framework that should guide the development of new science education standards. The result, after stakeholder and public input, is the A Framework for K-12 Science Education, which provides the blueprint for a group of 26 states (representing 58% of the US student population) to develop the Next generation Science Standards (again, under the leadership of Achieve). No one signed on before these NGSS are known; the states, being smart about cooperating, simply agreed to co-develop and seriously consider adopting and implementing them when they are done: 100% of it, evolution and all.
That's the long elevator ride version...
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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
Board Member
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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?
>
> 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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