SUMMARY
Based on the National Research Council’s Framework for K-12 Science Education (2011), 26 states worked collaboratively to develop the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), published in 2013.
The Next Generation Science standards present a new, balanced, vision for K-12 science education where the practices of science and engineering are used to help students investigate and learn new content across a wide-range of disciplines.
The NGSS require that students use and understand the elements of language as they make observations, define questions, develop rules for data collection and describe and defend their results. At the same time as states are working to improve science education in part to develop an informed citizenry and also to better prepare students to be ready for the workforce of the future, more and more students are coming to school needing to learn English as well as the required content for their grade. Because school and teacher accountability models con
