Comments on: Science education not a priority in Florida?

By: Pierce R. Butler

Pierce R. Butler — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 01:26:56 +0000

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

By: Mary Jane Tappen

Mary Jane Tappen — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:43:14 +0000

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.

By: Jonathan Smith

Jonathan Smith — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:06:10 +0000

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.