{"id":161,"date":"2007-02-21T20:46:25","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T00:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=161"},"modified":"2008-08-05T12:10:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T16:10:22","slug":"florida-math-science-education-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Florida math-science education research"},"content":{"rendered":"

We here at Florida Citizens for Science have been following this fairly closely<\/a>. We were actually rooting for another university to get the one year grant, but you certainly can’t always win when politics are involved.<\/p>\n

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A Nobel laureate will head a new state center that Gov. Charlie Crist announced Wednesday to improve math, science and technology teaching in Florida’s public schools.<\/font><\/p>\n

Sir Harold Kroto, co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will lead the Florida Center for Research in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at Florida State University. Kroto is a chemistry professor at Florida State.<\/font><\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

The center was created in response to lagging student performance in math and science and competition from other nations in those fields. No other state has anything to compare with it, said Kindergarten-12 Chancellor Cheri Pierson Yecke.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We here at Florida Citizens for Science have been following this fairly closely. We were actually rooting for another university to get the one year grant, but you certainly can’t always win when politics are involved. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[2,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-2B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2451,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2451","url_meta":{"origin":161,"position":0},"title":"We lost a friend","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"There is some very sad news from over the weekend. 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