{"id":1183,"date":"2010-03-30T06:55:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2010-03-30T06:55:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:55:25","slug":"tougher-graduation-requirements-do-it-right-not-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"Tougher graduation requirements: do it right, not fast"},"content":{"rendered":"

An editorial in the Lakeland Ledger<\/a> cautions against setting kids up for failure in math\/science education as bills requiring tougher graduation requirements moves through the state legislature.<\/p>\n

Students who don’t receive the necessary groundwork for math and science courses in lower grades \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and many American children don’t \u00e2\u20ac\u201d could be heavily disadvantaged.<\/p>\n

It’s too soon to know whether higher science and math requirements could raise high-school dropout rates, but Florida should take steps to ensure that they don’t.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Florida will need strategies to close those gaps, create engaging-and-effective math and science curricula, provide remedial help, design tests to measure performance, and hire a lot more certified math and science teachers. All of these have cost implications at a time when schools struggle for revenue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An editorial in the Lakeland Ledger cautions against setting kids up for failure in math\/science education as bills requiring tougher graduation requirements moves through the state legislature. Students who don’t receive the necessary groundwork for math and science courses in … 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-j5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1236,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1236","url_meta":{"origin":1183,"position":0},"title":"Change to math and science grad requirements?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Gradebook education blog notes that the Florida School Boards Association wants to change Florida math and science graduation requirements in favor of a \"career ready curriculum.\" What do you think, bad idea or good idea?","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3441,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=3441","url_meta":{"origin":1183,"position":1},"title":"Should Florida students be allowed to graduate with only one science course?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A bill filed in the Florida senate has very serious implications for science and math education:\u00c2\u00a0Proposed bill would allow Florida students to ditch advanced math for industry certifications State Senator Travis Hutson (R-St. Johns) introduced a bill last week that, if passed, would dramatically change traditional four-year graduation requirements for\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1656,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1656","url_meta":{"origin":1183,"position":2},"title":"And what about science education?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"August 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I would quote the parts related to science education in this story about Florida using national standards and tougher tests ... but there ARE NONE: FCAT to be retired, replaced by more and tougher exams. 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I admit I know nothing about Massachusetts' science test and requirements,\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1191#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1158,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1158","url_meta":{"origin":1183,"position":5},"title":"They see a problem, but will they DO anything?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Our state legislators claim that they see a problem with Florida's education system, as outlined by Ms. Haithcock here. Satisfying Florida's graduation requirements -- but not exceeding them -- prepares high school students for one thing: remedial coursework at a community college, Frances Haithcock, state chancellor of K-12 public schools,\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1158#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}