Jack Hassard: A Skeptical Look at Science Standards
Guest Post by Jack Hassard.
Over the next two posts I am going to focus on standards- and test-based educational reform with an eye toward opening a conversation about how standards and high-stakes tests might actually impede science teaching and learning.
We begin by examining the science standards, which have been an integral part of science education since the publication of the National Science Education Standards by National Research Council in 1995. Then in 2011, the National Research Council published A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Core Ideas. The Framework is now being used by Achieve, Inc. to develop Next Generation Science Standards. Achieve, Inc. is the company that wrote the Common Core State Standards in K - 12 English Language Art, and Mathematics.
Standards as Reform
