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An interactive version of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) is now available online. This tool allows users to search the standards and organize content to meet their needs. Within the Disciplinary Core Idea (DCI) and Topics arrangements, standards can be organized by grade band/level and DCI. The NGSS can also be viewed as the individual performance expectations that make up the standards. In this arrangement, content can be organized by the three dimensions from the NRC Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and DCIs.

Recognizing both the essential importance of training in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and the reduction of the United States’ competitive economic edge, members of the business community stand ready to work with states and communities in support of the implementation of the NGSS.

The development of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) is nearing completion, and the final release of the NGSS is anticipated in the second week in April (April 8-12). Thousands of comments received during the second public comment period have been reviewed and are being carefully incorporated into the standards.

The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the largest organization in the world promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all, issued the following statement today regarding the release of the second public draft of the Next Generation Science Standards. The statement can be attributed to Dr. Karen L. Ostlund, NSTA President.

The release of the second and final public draft of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) is set for the first week in January. The NGSS will be completed in March of 2013.

Subject gets renewed emphasis at elementary level as new standards change expectations.

Throughout Fall 2012, NSTA is presenting a series of eight web seminars on the practices described in The Framework for K-12 Science Education, released in 2011 by the National Research Council (NRC).

Helen Quinn and Okhee Lee will discuss NGSS and ELLs in this upcoming webinar on September 19, 2012. To register, visit the event webpage: http://ell.stanford.edu/event/next-generation-science-standards-ells.

Good news! K-12 engineering education may soon be coming to schools near you! This is certainly true if your state is one of 26 states leading the way to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards currently under development by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Research Council of the National Academies of Science, National Science Teachers Association, and managed by Achieve, Inc.