For several years, I have written about the National Standards Movement, and in general, have been critical of the movement, and suggested that in a liberal democracy such as our, common standards seems to the antithesis of our beliefs in the education of citizens....
Can science as inquiry continue to be a primary goal of science teaching in the burgeoning culture of creating common standards, and common high-stakes assessments? This is a question that I raised about a year and half ago. I am returning to the question now since...
According to the committee that drafted and wrote the final edition of the Framework for K-12 Science Education, American science education needs a complete overhaul, currently lacks vision, and does not prepare students for a scientifically and technologically-based...
The standards devote insufficient attention to the need for an interdisciplinary curriculum, and represent a contracted view of the “common core” that disregards the role of schools in preparing students for citizenship. William G. Wraga, Professor, University of...
Why is there little criticism of the Framework for K-12 Science Education that was released by the National Academy of Science (NAS) on Tuesday? The organizing committee of the NAS worked for more than a year to develop a new framework for the teaching of K-12 science...
What do you want to see in a new framework for K-12 science education? According to the report published today at The National Academies Press, the Framework for K-12 Science Education outlines a broad set of expectations for students in science and engineering in...
