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Januszyk, Rita; Miller, Emily C.; Lee, Okhee – Science and Children, 2016
While student demographics continue to change nationwide, science achievement gaps persist, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NCES 2012). As traditional racial and ethnic minority students have become the numeric majority (NCES 2013), teaching science for all increasingly means addressing diverse student populations.…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Educational Change, Science Achievement, Science Education
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Lee, Okhee; Miller, Emily C.; Januszyk, Rita – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2014
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) offer a vision of science teaching and learning that presents both learning opportunities and demands for all students, particularly student groups that have traditionally been underserved in science classrooms. The NGSS have addressed issues of diversity and equity from their inception, and the NGSS…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Student Diversity, Equal Education
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Lee, Okhee; Quinn, Helen; Valdes, Guadalupe – Educational Researcher, 2013
The National Research Council (2011) released "A Framework for K-12 Science Education" that is guiding the development of the Next Generation Science Standards, which are expected to be finalized in early 2013. This article addresses language demands and opportunities that are embedded in the science and engineering practices delineated in the…
Descriptors: State Standards, Engineering, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning