{"id":1146,"date":"2009-12-13T13:02:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T17:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2009-12-13T22:21:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T02:21:30","slug":"last-in-the-nation-in-science-but-still-twiddling-thumbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"Last in the nation in science, but still twiddling thumbs."},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Cottle, professor and undergraduate director in the Department of Physics at Florida State University, has an opinion column in the Tallahassee Democrat<\/a> outlining the dismal state of science education in Florida. No one wants to step up and do anything serious about this problem.<\/p>\n

Florida students are pretty much last in the nation for science.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Such a declaration should be a rallying cry for the state’s policy-makers, since the twin goals of K-12 science education \u00e2\u20ac\u201d scientific literacy for all and the education of a greater number of excellent scientists and engineers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d are necessary steps for Florida to make the transition to an innovation economy.<\/p>\n

But instead, Florida’s leaders seem to be stuck in neutral \u00e2\u20ac\u201d or even reverse \u00e2\u20ac\u201d when it comes to science in the state’s K-12 schools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading →<\/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-iu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1090,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1090","url_meta":{"origin":1146,"position":0},"title":"High-school science achievement","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"July 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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