The U.S. News and World Report – Janice Gobert
“According to the most-recent Programme for International Student Assessment, the students from the United States ranked 21st worldwide in science, despite the billions of dollars spent on STEM education every year. This does not bode well for the U.S., where jobs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are expected to anchor the economy of the future. The poor PISA results, however, may underscore the importance of the new Next Generation Science Standards, which have already been adopted by 17 states and the District of Columbia. These standards encourage the fostering of inquiry science practices, such as posing questions and designing and carrying out experiments to address them, creating and using models, and generating explanations of findings with data to substantiate one’s claims.”(more)