These are articles related to standards that I’ve written over the years. There are five recent articles originally published on LinkedIn. LinkedIn articles are not easy to find, so I’ve reproduced them here. Another set of articles will follow eventually.
Future Science Standards Should be a Database: This short article argues that future K-12 science standards should be expressed as a relational database rather than, for example, pdfs.
Two Words: This short article discusses two small improvements that could be made to the NGSS.
Don’t Go Backward: This article discusses a question related to heredity–the extent to which you can deduce characteristics of parents from characteristics of offspring–and situates it in a broader statistical context.
Conserved and Not Conserved: This article describes possible corrections to the wording of NGSS HS-PS2-2 and explains why a particular type of algebra problem is problematic.
“Grows with”, Doubling, and Halving: This article considers enigmatic language, “grows with the square of its speed”, that has recently re-appeared in the 2028 NAEP Science Framework, and posits a distinction between static (A’s kinetic energy versus B’s kinetic energy) and dynamic (as A’s speed changes, how does its kinetic energy change?) comparisons.