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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 →

The Tampa Tribune is listing all of the major bills that are essentially dead this legislative session. Even though the chances are incredibly slim that any of these bills will see action before the end of the session, I think … Continue reading →

Some of the folks here at Florida Citizens for Science have dipped their toes into new water, producing the first edition of a newsletter: Florida Science Matters. You can see the pdf file as a large file (8 mb) or … Continue reading →

The Fordham Institute conducts regular reviews of states’ science standards and oftentimes pays close attention to the treatment of evolution in those standards. Another review is actively in the works, and a reviewer wrote a blog post praising one state … Continue reading →

There is a complete list on Rational Wiki that shows all the scientific evidence for evolution being a complete hoax. I think,along with Sen. Steve Wise, that we should “critically analyse” all this evidence in our science class rooms. If anyone … Continue reading →

Here are two websites worth checking out. The AAAS Science Assessment website is a great resource for understanding what students do and do not know, based on tons of research. Teachers, this site is worth your time to check out. … Continue reading →

I’m testing posting here from my phone, and so I’ll use the big news of the day for this practice run. Florida education commissioner suddenly resigns. My initial reaction is that this is not a good thing. Education in Florida … Continue reading →

No, there wasn’t an actual debate, but a news article in AOL news, “Florida Education Bill Revives Evolution Debate“, does have dueling quotes from Florida Citizen for Science president Joe Wolf and the Discovery Institute’s Casey Luskin. It’s interesting that … Continue reading →