EDT 265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Next Generation Science Standards, Common Core State Standards Initiative
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15 Mar 2017
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National Curriculum
● Clear, uniform set of guidelines that specify academic skills students are
expected to know at each grade level
○ List of topics to be covered and how they should be covered
○ Countries like Finland and Singapore have national curriculum
● In US, no national curriculum, we have 42 states that use Common Core
curriculum
○ 1965: establishment of national curriculum in the US was banned
○ Before 1990: talk of national curriculum was only about other countries
○ 1990s: Standard and Accountability movement
○ 2009: Start of Common Core Standards
○ 2013: Next Generation Science Standards created
● Common Core
○ Set of academic standards for the fields of math and language arts
○ Before common core: over 1000 sets of different standards existed in the
US
○ They are:
■ Research based
■ Clear, understandable and consistent
■ Aligned with college and career expectations
■ Based on rigorous content and application of knowledge
■ Building upon strengths of state standards
■ Also based off of other countries
○ Attempting to prepare students for the real world
○ Not really curriculum, just goals to hit
○ Districts still have the autonomy to reach the standards: they create the
curriculum
● The Netherlands
○ Dutch ministry of Education… set a general national curriculum
○ Suggests time and target their students should be at
○ Schools are free to teach core subjects how they like as long as they meet
the standards
● England
○ National Curriculum was originally introduced in 1988
○ Program sets out the curriculum and targets for all subjects in four key
stages
○ Teachers follow the standards of the curriculum, it is more guided than the
common core
○ Funded by the federal government
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