AAAS Endorses Proposed K-12 Science Standards, But Urges Stronger Focus on “What Is and Isn’t Science”

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), has endorsed draft national standards that would define what K-12 students should know about life, earth, and physical science by grades 4, 8 and 12.

AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner urged the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), however, to add explicit language on the nature of science and to fine-tune student achievement-level descriptions.

Read the complete news article, or review Leshner’s letter to the NAGB.