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Special Delivery: NGSS Adoption Workbooks

March 17, 2013

Yesterday, I discovered a new organization, the U.S. Education Delivery Institute (EDi). When I saw the name, I first thought it was part of the U.S. Department of Education, or the United States Postal Service. I was wrong on both counts. The EDi, formed in 2010 is another Washington D.C. non-profit founded by Sir Michael Barber, former head of the U.K.… Read more

Boxed In: How the NGSS Impedes Science Teaching

By Jack Hassard

March 12, 2013

The major journals of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) have published articles featuring and explaining to science teachers the nature of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The journals include The Science Teacher, Science Scope and Science and Children. For the past several issues, each journal has published articles that deal with different aspects of the NGSS, including what students should know about earth science, life science, and physical science, when they should know it, and why these standards will “help all learners in the nation develop the science and engineering understanding they need to live successful, informed, and productive lives, and that will help them create a sustainable planet for future generations.” (Krajcik 2013, p.… Read more

Fordham Institute Review of New Science Standards: Fealty to Conservatism & Canonical Science

By Jack Hassard

June 27, 2012

Fordham Institute has published their review of the draft of the Next Generation Science Standards. Achieve wrote the the new science standards. Achieve also wrote the math and reading/language arts common core standards.

Unchanging fealty to a conservative agenda and a canonical view of science education restricts and confines Fordham’s review to an old school view of science teaching. Science education has rocketed past the views in two reports issued by Fordham about science education standards.… Read more

NSTA Has Serious & Extensive Concerns About Achieve’s Next Generation Science Standards

By Jack Hassard

June 25, 2012

Standards development, such as in science, is a big enterprise, and one that will result in huge profits for corporations, and will cost school districts billions to carry out over the next few years. For the past two years, Achieve and the Carnegie Corporation have teamed up to write a framework, and a set of science standards for K-12 schools.… Read more

What are People Saying About the Next Generation Science Standards?

By Jack Hassard

May 25, 2012

The Next Generation Science Standards came online last week, and some of us have read and explored Achieve’s website. It’s a massive site, so much so that there is a video on how to use the website.

What are people saying about the new standards? Do they like what they see? Do they think that the standards’ writers hit a home run, or struck out?… Read more

Are Next Generation Science Standards a Brick Wall or a Bridge to Learning?

By Jack Hassard

May 24, 2012

Are Next Generation Science Standards a Brick Wall or a Bridge to Learning? After a review of the new standards, one has to wonder.

Randy Pausch, author of The Last Lecture, suggested that brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.… Read more

Some Problems with the Next Generation Science Standards: One Reviewer’s Notes

By Jack Hassard

May 20, 2012

As you know the first public draft of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are online and you have until June 1, 2012 to read and provide comments on the NGSS.

I’ve decided to participate in the survey, and use this post to share with you some aspects of the survey, especially the surveys on individual elementary, middle and high school standards.… Read more