{"id":1040,"date":"2009-05-18T13:51:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2009-06-27T13:33:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T17:33:26","slug":"florida-is-lagging-in-science-ed-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"Florida is lagging in science ed study"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new study was recently released: Taking the Pulse of Bioscience Education in America: A State by State Analysis<\/a>. Essentially, the study takes a look at science\/biology scores per state in ACT, NAEP, AP along with other factors to see how well middle and high school students are being prepared in the life sciences for possible future careers in the biosciences. The breakdown of the states looks like this:<\/p>\n

— Leaders of the Pack: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Vermont, Wisconsin
\n— Second Tier: Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington
\n— Middling Performance: Alabama, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Montana, South Carolina, Wyoming
\n— Lagging Performance: Arkansas, Florida<\/strong>, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia
\n— Not Rated: States that do not participate in the NAEP science assessment were not rated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you take a look at the maps included in the full report, you will see that science education performance — high or low — is a regional phenomenon rather than an individual state one. But that shouldn’t be used as an excuse for Florida, which has been trying to attract the bioscience industry for a few years now. Our state is right there at the bottom of most of the study’s indicators except for Advanced Placement course participation.<\/p>\n

There are problems across the nation, though:<\/p>\n

On average, only 28% of the high school students taking the ACT , which is a national standardized test for college admission, reached a score indicating college readiness for biology and no state reached even 50%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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