{"id":1182,"date":"2010-03-30T06:43:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2010-03-30T06:43:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:43:31","slug":"home-school-science-textbook-story-localized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"Home-school science textbook story localized"},"content":{"rendered":"

A TV station in Tallahassee did a story on textbooks used for home schooling<\/a>. It’s an attempt to localize a story done by the AP earlier this month: “Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution<\/a>“. The Florida TV station’s story is pitiful and woefully incomplete. The reporter didn’t bother to explain what sparked her story, and did nothing more than interview a home-schooling mother and her daughter. There was no attempt to truly report on this issue and give viewers the full and accurate story. Good grief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A TV station in Tallahassee did a story on textbooks used for home schooling. It’s an attempt to localize a story done by the AP earlier this month: “Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution“. The Florida TV station’s story is … 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-j4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":921,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=921","url_meta":{"origin":1182,"position":0},"title":"Earliest Human Footprints Discovered","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"February 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Ancient footprints found at Rutgers' Koobi Fora Field School show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago. 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