{"id":150,"date":"2007-02-06T09:35:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T13:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=150"},"modified":"2008-08-05T12:16:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T16:16:50","slug":"yet-another-story-about-dismal-science-testing-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Yet another story about dismal science testing projections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s yet another story preparing folks for sinking school grades <\/a>as a result of science counting on the FCAT and other factors. (Bold emphasis below is mine.)<\/p>\n

After three years of preparation, the numbers show, Florida’s schoolchildren are still woefully unprepared in the sciences.<\/p>\n

State education officials say privately that they are embarrassed by students’ shortcomings in science but publicly point to changes the Department of Education is making, including plans to building a math-and-science teacher-training institute.<\/p>\n

“Americans are falling behind their global counterparts . . . we need to be sure to beef up expectations for science,” said Education Chancellor Cheri Yecke.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Florida’s students have been tested in science since 2003 on the FCAT, but the scores never counted toward the school grade.<\/p>\n

The results have been dismal. Last year, for example, only 35 percent of juniors were proficient.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…
\n What also haunts educators is that the science test poses no consequences for 11th-graders.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Teens must pass only reading and math, not science, to graduate, so there is no incentive for them to do well. But scores in all subjects count toward the school grade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s yet another story preparing folks for sinking school grades as a result of science counting on the FCAT and other factors. (Bold emphasis below is mine.) 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