The Critical Stakeholders are distinguished individuals and organizations that represent education, science, business and industry and who have interest in the Next Generation Science Standards. The members are drawn from all 50 states and have expertise in:
- Elementary, middle and high school science from both urban and rural communities
- Special education and English language acquisition
- Postsecondary education
- State standards and assessments
- Cognitive science, life science, physical science, earth/space science, and engineering/technology
- Mathematics and Literacy
- Business and industry
- Workforce development
- Education policy
The Critical Stakeholders will critique successive, confidential drafts of the standards and provide feedback to the writers and states, giving special attention to their areas of expertise.
Alphabetical List of Represented Organizations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
| Adelphi University |
| Afterschool Alliance |
| American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) |
| American Federation of Teachers (AFT) |
| American Geological Institute (AGI) |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
| American Institute of Physics (AIP) |
| American Psychological Association (APA) |
| American Society of Agronomy (ASA) |
| The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) |
| American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| Anchorage (AK) School District |
| Arizona State University |
| Armstrong Atlantic State University, College of Education |
| Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) |
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Association of Presidential Awardees in Science Teaching (APAST) |
| Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU) |
| Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) |
| Big Hollow (IL) School District # 38, Big Hollow Middle School |
| Big Horn (WY) County School District #3, Greybull High School |
| Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) |
| Boise State University |
| Boston College |
| Boston University |
| Brigham Young University, Department of Teacher Education |
| Broad Institute |
| California Polytechnic State University |
| California Science Project |
| California State University San Bernardino |
| California State University San Marcos |
| Calvin College |
| Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) |
| Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) |
| Central Kitsap (WA) School District |
| Central Michigan University |
| Champaign (IL) Unit 4 School District, Curriculum Center |
| Chicago State University |
| The City College of New York |
| The City University of New York (CUNY) |
| Clark County School District |
| Clemson University |
| Cleveland (OH) Metropolitan Schools |
| Columbia University, Center for Environmenal Research and Conservation |
| Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory |
| Columbia University Teachers College |
| Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) |
| The Concord Consortium |
| Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution |
| Cornell University, Cornell Lab of Ornithology |
| Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) |
| Cumberland (RI) School Department, Joseph L. McCourt Middle School |
| Delran Township School District |
| DGR Strategies |
| District of Columbia Public Schools, Cardozo High School |
| Drexel University, School of Education |
| Duke University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| DuPont |
| Eastern Oregon University, College of Education |
| Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) |
| E.L. Haynes Public Charter School, Washington, D.C. |
| Federation of Associations in Brain and Behavioral Sciences (FABBS) |
| Findlay City (OH) Schools |
| Florida Atlantic University |
| Frenship (TX) Independent School District, Frenship Middle School |
| Fresno (CA) Unified School District, Yokomi Science and Technology School |
| George Mason University |
| George Washington University |
| Georgia Southern University |
| Governor's STEM Advisory Council (IA) |
| Grand Valley State University |
| Greene County (TN) Schools |
| Green Education Foundation |
| Greenhills School (MI) |
| Guilford County (NC) Schools, Gibson Elementary |
| Hallsville R-IV (MO) School District |
| Harvard University |
| Hawaii Technology Academy |
| Helios Education Foundation |
| Heber Springs (AR) School District, Heber Springs High School |
| Hofstra University |
| Houston Independent School District |
| Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy |
| Indiana University |
| International Technology and Engineering Education Association (ITEEA) |
| Iowa Area Education Agency 267 |
| Iowa Mathematics and Science Education Partnership |
| James Madison University |
| Kappa Delta Pi |
| Knowledge Without Borders |
| Kuna (ID) School District, Kuna High School |
| Ladue (IL) School Distric, Ladue Middle School |
| Lawrence Hall of Science |
| Lesley University |
| Lexington (IL) Community Unit School District #7 |
| Louisiana State University |
| Lowndes County (GA) Schools, Lowndes High School |
| Marshall University, June Harless Center for Rural Educational Research and Development |
| McDaniel College |
| Mercer County (WV) Schools, Bluefield High School |
| Mesa (AZ) Public Schools |
| Michigan State University, Department of Teacher Education |
| Michigan Technological University, Center for Water and Society |
| Michigan Technological University, Department of Cognitive and Learning Sciences |
| Middle Atlantic Planetarium Society |
| Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) |
| Middle Tennessee State University |
| Mississippi Bend (IA) Area Education Agency |
| Mississippi State University, Department of Leadership and Foundations |
| Missouri Botanical Garden |
| Monroe #2 Orleans BOCES Elementary Science Program |
| Moraine Valley Community College |
| Morehead State University |
| Mount Holyoke College, Department of Physics |
| Museum of Science, Boston |
| National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) |
| National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) |
| National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST) |
| National Association of Science and Math Coalitions (NASSMC) |
| National Center for Science Education |
| National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) |
| National Earth Science Teachers Association (NESTA) |
| National Education Association (NEA) |
| National Geographic Society |
| National Marine Educators Association (NMEA) |
| National Middle Level Science Teachers Association (NMLSTA) |
| National School Boards Association |
| National Science Education Leadership Association (NSELA) |
| National Sciece Resources Center (NSRC) |
| National Society of Hispanic Physicists (NSHP) |
| The Nature Conservancy |
| Nebraska Religious Coalition for Science Education |
| New Canaan (CT) Public Schools |
| New Haven (CT) Public Schools |
| New Rochelle (NY) School District, Columbus Elementary School |
| North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University |
| North Carolina State University |
| North Clackamas (OR) Schools, Clackamas High School |
| Northern Arizona University |
| Northwestern University |
| Northwest R1 (MO) School District, Northwest High School |
| Oakland University |
| Oglala Lakota College |
| The Ohio Academy of Science |
| Ohio Association for Teachers of Family and Consumer Science |
| The Ohio State University |
| Ohio University |
| Pacific University |
| Pacific Science Center |
| Palm Beach State University |
| Palmyra Cove Nature Park and Environmental Discovery Center |
| PASCO |
| Penn State |
| Polytechnic Institute of New York University |
| Portland State University |
| Pottsville (AR) School District |
| Purdue University |
| Rogers (AR) Public Schools, Rogers High School |
| Rutgers University, Graduate School of Education |
| Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Environmental Science |
| Sally Ride Science |
| San Diego State University |
| Santa Fe Institute |
| Saratoga Springs Senior High School (NY) |
| School District of the Chathams (GA), Chatham High School |
| Science Magazine |
| Science Teachers Association of New York State |
| Sea Grant Educators Network |
| Seattle Pacific University, Department of Physics |
| Shippensburg University |
| Society for Neuroscience |
| Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) |
| Somersworth (NH) School District, Idlehurst Elementary School |
| Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |
| Spartina Consulting Group, LLC |
| Spokane (WA) Public Schools |
| SRI International, Center for Technology in Learning |
| St. Edward's University |
| St. John Fisher College |
| Storey County (NV) School District |
| St. Paul (MN) Public Schools |
| State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) |
| The State University of New York Brockport, Department of Computational Science |
| The State University of New York Fredonia, College of Education |
| The State University of New York Geneseo, Department of Physics and Astronomy |
| Sulphur Springs (CA) School District |
| Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) |
| Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM (TIES) |
| Temple University |
| TERC |
| Texas A&M University |
| Texas Tech University |
| Triangle Coalition for Science and Technological Education |
| Tucson (AZ) Unified School District, Pueblo Magnet High School |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology |
| University of Arizona, College of Education |
| University of Arizona, Department of Mathematics |
| University of Arizona, Physics Department |
| University of California Irvine |
| University of California Riverside |
| University of California San Diego |
| University of California Santa Barbara |
| University of California Santa Cruz |
| University of Central Oklahoma |
| University of Chicago, The Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education |
| University of Cincinnati |
| University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences |
| University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Physics |
| University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Computer Science |
| University of Colorado Boulder, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
| University of Colorado Boulder, School of Education |
| University of Colorado Denver, Department of Mathematics & Statistical Sciences |
| University of Delaware, Department of Geological Sciences |
| University of Georgia, School of Education |
| University of Idaho, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering |
| University of Kansas, School of Engineering |
| University of Kentucky |
| University of Kentucky, Marin School of Public Policy and Administration |
| University of Massachusetts Boston |
| University of Michigan, School of Education |
| University of Minnesota |
| University of Missouri, Physics Department |
| University of Montana, College of Arts and Sciences |
| University of Nebraska- Lincoln |
| University of New England |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Geological Sciences |
| University of Northern Colorado, College of Natural and Health Sciences |
| University of Northern Colorado, School of Biological Sciences |
| University of Oklahoma |
| University of Oregon, Department of Physics |
| University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education |
| University of Puerto Rico, Department of Physics |
| University of Rochester, The Warner Center |
| University of Southern Maine |
| University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Physics and Astronomy |
| University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast, College of Science and Technology |
| Univresity of Tennessee- Knoxville |
| University of Texas at Arlington |
| University of Texas at Austin |
| University of Texas at Dallas, Science/Mathematics Education Department |
| University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Pharmacology |
| University of Texas at Tyler |
| University of Washington |
| University of Wisconsin- Madison |
| U.S. Coast Guard Academy |
| Utah State University |
| Vanderbilt University, College of Education |
| Vanderbilt University, Department of Psychology and Human Development |
| Virginia Institute of Marine Science |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Washington Science Teachers Association |
| Washoe County (NV) School District, North Valley High School |
| Wesleyan University, Project to Increase Mastery of Mathematics and Science (PIMMS) |
| WestEd |
| Western Washington University |
| Wetzel County (WV) School District, New Martinsville School |
| Weymouth (MA) Public Schools, Weymouth High School |
| Wichita State University |
| Wisconsin Center for Education Research, World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) |