With the idea of going more for depth than breadth in the sciences, new K-12 science standards for public education have been introduced.
Organizers are hopeful that most, if not all, states will adopt these standards. But they admit from the start that the issues of global-warming and evolution will be stumbling blocks for many. Rachel Sheffield of The Heritage Foundation says these common standards are troubling. "The introduction of national common core science standards ... should be a cause for concern, similarly as the English and the math standards should be a cause for concern -- just encroachment on states' authority to set their own academic standards," she warns.Though she admits there is a definite need to improve student achievement in science, Sheffield maintains that centralized standards are not the answer. "Centralizing education is not the way to go about doing it. What we need to do is to put more [power] into the [hands] of parents -- those closest to the child who can make decisions for students through policies such as school choice that give parents the opportunity to choose the school that best meets their child's needs," the researcher contends. 26 states, along with educators and science experts, collaborated to develope the science core curriculum.
Organizers are hopeful that most, if not all, states will adopt these standards. But they admit from the start that the issues of global-warming and evolution will be stumbling blocks for many. Rachel Sheffield of The Heritage Foundation says these common standards are troubling. "The introduction of national common core science standards ... should be a cause for concern, similarly as the English and the math standards should be a cause for concern -- just encroachment on states' authority to set their own academic standards," she warns.Though she admits there is a definite need to improve student achievement in science, Sheffield maintains that centralized standards are not the answer. "Centralizing education is not the way to go about doing it. What we need to do is to put more [power] into the [hands] of parents -- those closest to the child who can make decisions for students through policies such as school choice that give parents the opportunity to choose the school that best meets their child's needs," the researcher contends.
26 states, along with educators and science experts, collaborated to develope the science core curriculum.
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