In an email sent today by to all his House colleagues, Representative Gus Blackwell, Chair of the House Rules Committee condemned the use of the Next Generation Science Standards as a pattern for the proposed Oklahoma Academic Skills for Science and complaining they were simply copied:
“If the State Department was going to copy standards, why didn’t they copy Massachusetts or Indiana standards that received an “A” grade?”
It appears he had his chance to do that last week (and still could today)
DRAFT REVISED
Massachusetts
Science and Technology/Engineering Standards
Pre-K to Grade 8 by grade and Introductory High School Courses Based on the Next Generation Science Standards
December, 2013
Check it out for yourself –