[CASL-L] Next Generation Science Standards

[IRENE KWIDZINSKI]

FYI


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Subject: [aaslforum] SHARE: Next Generation Science Standards

"The first public draft of the Next Generation Science Standards is available 
from May 11 to June 1."

http://nextgenscience.org/next-generation-science-standards

As far as research goes, there is a point where it says: "Research on a problem 
should be carried out—for example, through Internet searches." Sad that school 
libraries are not mentioned as a resource for student research, as if Internet 
searches were the only sort of research that students can do. Of course, so many 
school librarians are losing their jobs, that how could "standards" possibly 
rely on the existence of a school library in a student's life? It's crazy that 
research is even a component of these new standards, i.e. the ELA CCSS, yet 
there is no additional funding to provide the resources (books, computers, 
computer databases, school librarians, etc.) for this research requirement for 
these standards. Still glad that research is a part of the standards though. Sad 
that there is no talk of the importance of school libraries in supporting these 
new standards on a national scale.

http://nextgenscience.org/sites/ngss/files/Draft%20Next%20Generation%20Science%20Standards%20May%202012.pdf





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The Internet may be the world's greatest library, but let's face it - all the 
books are scattered on the floor.  - D.C. Denison, Boston Globe

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. 
- Mitchell Kapor

To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief 
aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to 
discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from 
the fiction ... The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think 
intensively and to think critically. - Martin Luther King, Jr. The Purpose of 
Education
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