Focusing on Essential Knowledge and Skills

MOBILIZATION

Connecting to Your Work

How can you mobilize to help the nation improve math and science education for all students? Read recommended actions from The Opportunity Equation report. MORE
 

READ THE REPORT

We must raise the bar in education and rethink the design of school if we want excellent math and science learning for all students. The Opportunity Equation report provides a roadmap for this vision with recommendations for key stakeholders. MORE

 
STEM IN FOCUS

Common Core Standards: Why Did States Choose to Adopt?

We hear from: Former Senator Bill Frist (R-TN), Education Commissioners Eric J. Smith (FL) and Mitchell D. Chester (MA), and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute's Chester Finn. MORE
 

VISUALIZATION

 

Common standards, linked with rigorous assessments, set the bar for all students—from struggling to advanced—to master academically rigorous content and succeed in the global economy. MORE

 
News Item

Delaware joins national effort to increase science standards

Newark Post
11/29/2011

Delaware and five other states have joined a national initiative to develop K-12 science standards.   Now, 26 states will lead the development of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a shared effort that will clearly define the content and practices all students will need to learn from kindergarten through high school graduation. Partnering with the states are the National Research Council, the National Science Teachers Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Achieve, who is facilitating the collaboration.

“Just as Delaware took a leadership role in writing national Common Core mathematics and English language arts standards, it is important for our science educators to have a hand in this groundwork,” Secretary of Education Dr. Lillian M. Lowery said.
Joining Delaware as the newest state partners to lead this effort are Arkansas, Illinois, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon. “A majority of the states, educating more than 50 percent of our nation’s students, have committed to developing the Next Generation Science Standards and they should be commended,” said Michael Cohen, president of Achieve. “Their collaboration with the leading voices on science and science education will produce a set of rigorous standards that will provide students with a complete science foundation and prepare them to be college- and career-ready.”

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