Science education not a priority in Florida?

Apparently, Florida’s education commissioner decided that Florida’s C rated science standards, with some tweaks, are just find and dandy. He thinks there is no need to adopt the national science standards like Florida did in other subjects. Bridge to Tomorrow says:

Florida is a leader in the Common Core Standards movement in math and English language arts, and is planning to implement a multi-state examination program in those subjects within the next few years.

However, the state’s educational leaders apparently do not have the stomach to compete with the rest of the nation in science.

While “STEM” is supposed to be an educational priority in Florida, there is apparently no “science” in “STEM”.

Gotta love it. You don’t have to trust my or Paul’s assessment of what was said, though. See for yourself:

About Brandon Haught

Communications Director for Florida Citizens for Science.
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3 Responses to Science education not a priority in Florida?

  1. Jonathan Smith says:

    I’m not sure where the FDOE are taking us,and I’m not so sure they know either.
    I spent 3 hours on two seperate occasions working with the survey monkey that contained the clarifications to the old benchmarks and I was not impressed at all,infact some of them were nothing less than appalling.
    As many others have said,The big issue for Florida is whether science is a high priority for the K-12 schools. At this moment in time it would seem that it isn’t.

  2. Mary Jane Tappen says:

    To clarify, the report from the Commissioner included reviews of the NGSS from Fordahm and NSTA, not of their reviews of our NGSSS. His comment referred to past questions about Florida not “joining” the effort and that we were going to “wait and see” regarding the adoption. Our recommendation was based upon review of the draft as well as review by others that there is still work to be done. When the NGSS are final a decision will be made regarding adoption. The Commissioner never implied there is no need to adopt the NGSS standards, the NGSS are not yet finalized and therefore cannot yet be adopted.

  3. Pierce R. Butler says:

    The best argument for the national standards, sight unseen: Not Made In Tallahassee.

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