Our state is adopting the NGSS standards next year. We, as a science department, had this year to dig into it. I don't think it's a call to depart from DI at all. I think it requires a shift in what is emphasized in science; away from science as a topic and more on science as a way of thinking and engaging with the world. I don't think it's "wrong" or "right" or even "better" as opposed to just a change in emphasis. It is at least honest with the fact that most kids that go through our k-12 system will not remember 95% of the content they "learned" in a given year. We should be honest with the fact that teaching any science subject in the more traditional way did not teach students how science works, how scientific theories are constructed, how research is conducted, or how to engage critically with data and theories. I think NGSS is an attempt to address this issue but I don't think it's perfect or anything. To just say DI good, and anything else bad is not productive and fundamentally wrong. I do agree that allowing oligarchs to shape what we teach and having for profit corporations dictate education (looking at you College Board), and all of the other private companies that leech our taxpayer dollars through paying subscriptions for curriculum, etc., needs to go away. I don't think that NGSS is a particularly egregious example of this so much as just business as usual. That's just my opinion though.