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Monthly Archives: May 2011
New textbook selection process now law
Textbook selection committees from across the state are now history in Florida. It will now be up to three appointed “experts” to decide what textbooks will be approved for use in our classrooms. I completely agree with the opinion of: … Continue reading
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Louisiana repeal efforts fail
There has been a big push in Louisiana to repeal a law that essentially invites the teaching of creationism in that state’s public schools. Unfortunately, despite an admirable campaign mounted by high school student Zack Kopplin, the repeal effort failed. … Continue reading
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Another textbook selection process article
There is another article today about the proposed radical changes to the state’s textbook selection process. School bill removes citizens from textbook reviews Average citizens may lose what limited role they have now in the state’s adoption of public school … Continue reading
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Café Scientifique / Science Cafe — Orlando
The members of science cafe in Orlando must be “gluttons for punishment” as they have, perhaps misguidedly,ask me to speak at their meeting on Wednesday June 1st. I would welcome all FCS and those associates who live in the Orlando … Continue reading
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Textbook selection process to change?
Hmmmm … did this slip by everyone unnoticed until now? And even now there is only one reporter on the story so far. This seems like a rather significant change, don’t you think? Florida Textbook Adoption Process May Be In … Continue reading
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What’s going on?
I wanted to do a quick search around the Internet in relation to my previous post about a very weak florida science education plan. Is it possible we’re just missing something? I was surprised to discover that the old Office of Mathematics … Continue reading
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Florida Science Ed Plan is weak
The Florida Department of Education has produced “Florida’s K-12 Science Education Plan†(pdf). Paul Cottle has taken a look at it and writes at his Bridge to Tomorrow blog that it leaves a lot to be desired. The plan, which … Continue reading
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Elementary school teachers need more science
The Center for American Progress issued a report recently entitled Slow Off the Mark: Elementary School Teachers and the Crisis in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education. The main point of the report is that elementary school teachers are ill … Continue reading
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