{"id":1090,"date":"2009-07-13T10:29:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T14:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2009-07-13T10:29:09","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T14:29:09","slug":"high-school-science-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1090","title":{"rendered":"High-school science achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Cottle, a professor and undergraduate director in the Department of Physics at Florida State University,has a nice Op Ed in the Tallahassee Democrate<\/a> today.<\/p>\n

Dr Cottle concludes “The concerns that the college science faculty have about science education in Florida extend far beyond the limits of graduation requirements and end-of-course testing. It is clear that bringing Florida to a world-class level in K-12 science education will require a significant investment in teacher professional development. We must work toward a program of professional development for the state’s 9,200 science teachers that represents the same level of effort as the “Just Read, Florida!” program that was so successful in raising the state’s achievement level in reading. Ultimately, this would require $30 million per year on a permanent basis.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Cottle, a professor and undergraduate director in the Department of Physics at Florida State University,has a nice Op Ed in the Tallahassee Democrate today. Dr Cottle concludes “The concerns that the college science faculty have about science education in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-hA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1250,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1250","url_meta":{"origin":1090,"position":0},"title":"The Nation’s Report Card on Science in Florida","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The National Center for Education Statistics today issued it \"Report Card\" on science education in the U.S., and broke their results down by participating states. The report indicates that Florida is not special at all when it comes to science. We're buried deep in the middle of the pack. Here's\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1146,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1146","url_meta":{"origin":1090,"position":1},"title":"Last in the nation in science, but still twiddling thumbs.","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"December 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Paul Cottle, professor and undergraduate director in the Department of Physics at Florida State University, has an opinion column in the Tallahassee Democrat outlining the dismal state of science education in Florida. No one wants to step up and do anything serious about this problem. Florida students are pretty much\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1146#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1148,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1148","url_meta":{"origin":1090,"position":2},"title":"Commissioner responds","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"December 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"FSU physics professor Paul Cottle had sounded the alarm in the Tallahassee Democrat concerning Florida's leadership's unimpressive \"plans\" -- or lack thereof -- for improving our \"pretty much last in the nation\" standing in science education. Eric Smith, Florida commissioner of education, responded. I do commend Smith for taking the\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1148#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1316,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1316","url_meta":{"origin":1090,"position":3},"title":"Florida Science Ed Plan is weak","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Florida Department of Education has produced \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s K-12 Science Education Plan\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (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 is decidedly not ambitious, demonstrates clearly that Florida is not\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1638,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1638","url_meta":{"origin":1090,"position":4},"title":"Is Online-U the way to go for science?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I love that Paul Cottle is making friends in some great places, including the media. 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