{"id":1606,"date":"2012-07-07T10:49:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T14:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2012-07-07T10:49:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T14:49:46","slug":"florida-science-standards-clarification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1606","title":{"rendered":"Florida science standards “clarification”"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a good summary update over at Bridge to Tomorrow<\/a> about our science standards “clarification” process.<\/p>\n

The exercise used the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153clarification\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because making \u00e2\u20ac\u0153revisions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d would have triggered a new round of public comment and perhaps another emotional debate over evolution education, similar to the one that occurred during the 2007-2008 science standards writing process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a good summary update over at Bridge to Tomorrow about our science standards “clarification” process. The exercise used the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153clarification\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because making \u00e2\u20ac\u0153revisions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d would have triggered a new round of public comment and perhaps another emotional debate … Continue reading →<\/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-pU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1537,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1537","url_meta":{"origin":1606,"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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