The Carnegie Corp. is underwriting a National Research Council panel that is drawing up a new set
of science education standards for release next year.
House approves climate and energy bill, Senate begins work; NIH finalizes stem cell guidelines; House finishes appropriations, Senate making progress; National
science education standards supported; Biologic drug regulation examined
The problem isn't limited to national legislators; state legislatures in Oklahoma and Wyoming are torpedoing new, state - of - the -
art science education standards over their climate change content.
Among the concepts they're expected to grasp, according to the state's recently
updated science education standards, are the roles energy and gravity play in our solar system, how heat can alter the state and density of matter, and how energy flow and the cycling of matter can affect environmental stability.
Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set
of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.
During his twelve - year tenure at NAS, he played a key part in developing the National
Science Education standards that are now used in schools across the country.
Here's how Florida prioritized
their science education standards.
Inquiry and the national
science education standards.
Utah school leaders are just starting the thorny process of updating the state's
science education standards.
Does technology help students accomplish the recommendations of
the science education standards?