{"id":1316,"date":"2011-05-11T06:47:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T10:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2011-05-11T06:47:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T10:47:01","slug":"florida-science-ed-plan-is-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1316","title":{"rendered":"Florida Science Ed Plan is weak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Department of Education has produced \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s K-12 Science Education Plan\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (<a href=\"http:\/\/bridgetotomorrow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/florida_s-k-12-science-education-plan.pdf\">pdf<\/a>). Paul Cottle has taken a look at it and writes at his Bridge to Tomorrow blog that it <a href=\"http:\/\/bridgetotomorrow.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/10\/from-the-florida-dept-of-ed-floridas-k-12-science-education-plan\/\">leaves a lot to be desired<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The plan, which is decidedly not ambitious, demonstrates clearly that Florida is not yet dedicated to increasing student achievement in science \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it just isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a priority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul then offers his <a href=\"http:\/\/bridgetotomorrow.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/10\/a-better-k-12-science-education-plan-for-florida\/\">own version of a plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Department of Education has produced \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s K-12 Science Education Plan\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (pdf). Paul Cottle has taken a look at it and writes at his Bridge to Tomorrow blog that it leaves a lot to be desired. The plan, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1316\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-le","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":911,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=911","url_meta":{"origin":1316,"position":0},"title":"Revising Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s K-12 Science Standards","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"February 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Paul Cottle who\u00c2\u00a0has been a champion in the fight for science education in the state of Florida has a excellent editorial in the \"American Physical Society Forum\"\u00c2\u00a0 Paul points out \"The shortcomings of the states\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 science standards were highlighted by comparisons like TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study),\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1957,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1957","url_meta":{"origin":1316,"position":1},"title":"O Science, O Science! 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