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What Goes up Must Come Down

New, Lower K-12 Science Standards for Massachusetts

December 5, 2016

By Paul Gross, Ze’ev Wurman

Originally published on pioneerinstitute.org Mon. December 5, 2016

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Abstract

This paper, the second of a two-part analysis, finds that Massachusetts’ Next Generation Science Standards adopted in Spring 2016 by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) fall short. The authors conclude they are unclear, unnecessarily complicated, miss important content, and fail to make important connections.

Paul Gross is University Professor of Life Sciences, emeritus, of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, having served also as Vice President and Provost, and Director of the Center for Advanced Studies.

Ze’ev Wurman (1950–2023) was a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, co-author of the Open Letter to Replace the Proposed New California Math Curriculum Framework, Chief Software Architect with MonolithIC 3D Inc., and former senior policy adviser with the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Education.

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