{"id":1525,"date":"2012-04-23T19:55:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T23:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2012-04-23T19:55:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T23:55:03","slug":"florida-is-not-at-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1525","title":{"rendered":"Florida is not at the party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, a little more than half the country (26 states) are at the party, so to speak, doing the exciting work of preparing a set of Next Generation Science Standards. Experts are taking their time and crafting an exemplary guide for the teaching of science. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsta.org\/publications\/news\/story.aspx?id=59290&amp;print=true\">It&#8217;s time to review the work<\/a> and those with a stake in the process are getting first dibs.<\/p>\n<p>The National Science Standards should be available this week to those states that are partners in the process.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately Florida is not one of those states.\u00c2\u00a0 The standards will be available for about a week for review before they are released to the public.<\/p>\n<p>These standards are being written by some of the best science educators and scientists in the country.\u00c2\u00a0 We are looking forward to seeing them and we wish could do so before they are released to the public; then we could have some true input to them.\u00c2\u00a0 Florida could still sign up so we could all do that.\u00c2\u00a0 Given the shortness of time, it would be worth a phone call to FDOE (Florida Department of Education) to tell them that they should sign up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, a little more than half the country (26 states) are at the party, so to speak, doing the exciting work of preparing a set of Next Generation Science Standards. Experts are taking their time and crafting an exemplary guide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1525\">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-oB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1537,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1537","url_meta":{"origin":1525,"position":0},"title":"Commissioner recommends National Science Standards","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In a report that Florida Commissioner of Education Gerard Robinson will be presenting (pdf document) to the Florida Board of Education this week, he recommends temporarily patching up our state's wounded science standards and then adopting the National Next Generation Science Standards in 2013-2014. 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