{"id":1307,"date":"2011-04-14T16:33:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T20:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2011-04-14T16:33:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T20:33:03","slug":"florida-leading-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1307","title":{"rendered":"Florida leading the way!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fordham Institute<\/a> conducts regular reviews of states’ science standards and oftentimes pays close attention to the treatment of evolution in those standards. Another review is actively in the works, and a reviewer wrote a blog post praising one state<\/a> that has really stood out so far for its outstanding treatment of the subject: Florida!<\/p>\n

But, thus far, only one set of standards from the 35 states I’ve looked at so far includes human evolution. Just one. I’ll leave it to you to guess which state it is while you read this description of the unit:<\/p>\n

Identify basic trends in hominid evolution from early ancestors six million years ago to modern humans, including brain size, jaw size, language, and manufacture of tools. Discuss specific fossil hominids and what they show about human evolution.<\/em><\/p>\n

The state: Florida.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

I’d like instead to lift up a toast to Florida \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which I bet was not the state that most of you guessed \u00e2\u20ac\u201d as exemplifying the way forward here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For all of you out there who helped write and then fight for our new standards (over and over again, unfortunately), stand up and take a bow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Fordham Institute conducts regular reviews of states’ science standards and oftentimes pays close attention to the treatment of evolution in those standards. 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