{"id":1236,"date":"2010-10-20T15:14:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T19:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2010-10-20T15:14:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T19:14:56","slug":"change-to-math-and-science-grad-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"Change to math and science grad requirements?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gradebook education blog notes that the Florida School Boards Association wants to change Florida math and science graduation requirements<\/a> in favor of a “career ready curriculum.” What do you think, bad idea or good idea?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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?<\/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-jW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3441,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=3441","url_meta":{"origin":1236,"position":0},"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":1183,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1183","url_meta":{"origin":1236,"position":1},"title":"Tougher graduation requirements: do it right, not fast","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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