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Earth and Space Science Comes of Age in Next Generation Science Standards
Suppose that you could create a K–12 science and engineering curriculum from scratch. How would you go about doing it? Over the past four years, that’s essentially what we have done: first by writing...
View ArticleThe Beauty of Earth from Space
In 1967, a decade after the launch of Sputnik 1, then U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson said of satellite technology, “We’ve spent [billions] on the space program. And if nothing else had come out of...
View ArticleMaking the Hippos Dance: Implementing NGSS in the Classroom
There is an old adage in the policy world that rings true in the process of transforming education and standards revision. It’s called “making the hippos dance,” and it refers to grandiose policy...
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