Education Week – Liana Heitin
“The Next Generation Science Standards do a better job overall of covering genetics than most previous state standards, but are missing some key content, according to a new study by science education specialists at the American Society of Human Genetics…The study, which was published last week in PLOS ONE, found that the NGSS adequately address 10 of the 19 core genetics concepts. That represents a significant improvement over previous state standards, which on average adequately address only five of the 19 core genetics concepts, according to the study. But the NGSS also left out some key concepts altogether, the study says.”(more)