In recent years many policymakers and organizations — the National Research Council among them — have sounded alarms about the need for better science and engineering education in the United States. But what can actually be done to improve it? What needs to change in American classrooms? A new report from the National Research Council offers a framework to serve as the basis for new K-12 science education standards — one that embodies a significant shift in how science and engineering are taught.
“It has been 15 years since the last science standards were developed, and our understanding — both in terms of science itself and how students learn about it — has progressed a great deal since then,” said Helen Quinn, chair of the committee that wrote the report. “We hope the framework we developed will guide improvements in standards and in science education over many years.”
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