Commentary & Feedback on Draft I of the Next Generation Science Standards
By Paul Gross , Lawrence S. Lerner , John Lynch , Martha Schwartz , Richard Schwartz , W. Stephen Wilson / June 25, 2012
Foreword by Chester E. Finn, Jr. , Kathleen Porter-Magee
Filed under: Standards, Testing, & Accountability
In May, Achieve unveiled and solicited comments on the first draft of the Next Generation Science Standards, the product of months of work by a team of writers on behalf of twenty-six states. This review by Fordham provides commentary, feedback, and constructive advice that we hope the NGSS authors will consider as they revise the standards before the release of a second draft later this year.
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