Fordham Institute: Next Generation Science Standards Five Flaws
How bad were the Next Generation Science Standards? So bad that the Fordham Institute which loved the Common Core couldn’t give these standard better than a C. A race to mediocrity in which Kanas finished the finish line.
Here are five of the “significant flaws” as defined by Fordham:
- Much essential content was omitted.
- The grade-to-grade progression that was a strength of the NRC Framework was not fully realized in the NGSS. The result was that some content that was never explicitly stated in earlier grades was nevertheless assumed in later grades.
- A number of key terms (e.g., “model” and “design”) were ill defined or inconsistently used and a number of actual errors were scattered throughout.
- Recommended “practices” dominated the NGSS, relegating essential knowledge—which should be the