{"id":1117,"date":"2009-09-10T18:44:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T22:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2009-09-10T18:44:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T22:44:36","slug":"new-blog-on-the-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"New blog on the block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our good friend Paul Cottle, a physics professor at FSU and vocal supporter of science education, has launched his own blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/bridgetotomorrow.wordpress.com\/\">Bridge to Tomorrow<\/a>. His inaugural post discusses science requirements for high school graduation and compares Florida students&#8217; ACT performance on science subjects to students&#8217; in other states in our region. Welcome to the party, Paul! Glad to have your voice out there.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tampabay.com\/schools\/2009\/09\/new-blog-focuses-on-science-education-in-florida.html\">Gradebook<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our good friend Paul Cottle, a physics professor at FSU and vocal supporter of science education, has launched his own blog: Bridge to Tomorrow. His inaugural post discusses science requirements for high school graduation and compares Florida students&#8217; ACT performance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1117\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-i1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":911,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=911","url_meta":{"origin":1117,"position":0},"title":"Revising Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s K-12 Science Standards","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"February 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Paul Cottle who\u00c2\u00a0has been a champion in the fight for science education in the state of Florida has a excellent editorial in the \"American Physical Society Forum\"\u00c2\u00a0 Paul points out \"The shortcomings of the states\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 science standards were highlighted by comparisons like TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study),\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1354,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1354","url_meta":{"origin":1117,"position":1},"title":"Florida &#8216;average&#8217; in preparing students for science future","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Study shows that the United States overall just doesn't take science education seriously. 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For instance: Rocky Hanna, principal of Leon High School in Tallahassee (and speaking, he said, for all that district\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s high school principals), said his colleagues\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1175#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1957,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1957","url_meta":{"origin":1117,"position":4},"title":"O Science, O Science! Wherefore art thou science?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida Citizens for Science vice president Jonathan Smith has a letter to the editor in the Lakeland Ledger. The statewide meetings on Common Core Standards that Gov. 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