Florida is not at the party

So, a little more than half the country (26 states) are at the party, so to speak, doing the exciting work of preparing a set of Next Generation Science Standards. Experts are taking their time and crafting an exemplary guide for the teaching of science. It’s time to review the work and those with a stake in the process are getting first dibs.

The National Science Standards should be available this week to those states that are partners in the process.  Unfortunately Florida is not one of those states.  The standards will be available for about a week for review before they are released to the public.

These standards are being written by some of the best science educators and scientists in the country.  We are looking forward to seeing them and we wish could do so before they are released to the public; then we could have some true input to them.  Florida could still sign up so we could all do that.  Given the shortness of time, it would be worth a phone call to FDOE (Florida Department of Education) to tell them that they should sign up.

About Brandon Haught

Communications Director for Florida Citizens for Science.
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3 Responses to Florida is not at the party

  1. Paul Ruscher says:

    Brandon – agreed! I’m glad that you are also encouraging this effort and I hope that we can move quickly to sign on. My op-ed in the Tallahassee Democrat finally appeared in March after I was frustrated that my efforts to contact DOE went unanswered.

    http://opie.met.fsu.edu/~Paul/K-12/Ruscher-11March2012-Democrat.pdf

  2. Joe Wolf says:

    Everyone who thinks as Brandon and Paul do should write a note to the FDOE commissioner Robinson. You can do that from the front page of the FDOE web site.

    Points to make:
    We can become a stakeholder but not adopt the standards. This is not a commitment on Florida’s part.
    It will same Florida money in the long run to adopt the National Standards rather than developing our own. That is currently scheduled to be done in a couple of years.

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