NSTA Adds Calif. to Project To Link Teaching and Standards

By David J. Hoff

San Diego

The nation's most populous state is now part of the nation's largest effort to link science instruction to national standards.

The National Science Teachers Association announced at its annual convention here last month that California educators will band together to help teachers change how they teach so their courses are aligned with the state's science standards.

"Today's announcement could not have come at a better time," Scott Hill, California's deputy superintendent of public instruction, said in a statement. "This network will, for the first time, let California science educators communicate with each other about what constitutes science...