{"id":1747,"date":"2012-11-16T09:29:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T13:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2012-11-21T09:18:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T13:18:16","slug":"science-still-floridas-red-headed-step-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1747","title":{"rendered":"Science, Still Florida’s Red Headed Step Child?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, The Consortium of Florida Education Foundation<\/a>,gathered for a regional session to focus on what businesses and industry leaders say they need in future workers and how the education system is changing to meet those needs. The meeting focused on\u00c2\u00a0“The new Common Core Curriculum” which\u00c2\u00a0will align with national standards designed to deliver a globally competitive workforce. Students will be tested on it not by the FCAT but, starting in 2015, by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers test, better known as PARCC. Little in the meeting focus on the need for a major transformation in STEM education at all levels (surprise surprise). Nothing was mentioned in regard to adopting the new National Science Standards (NGSS) so we must assume that the current state science standards (recently\u00c2\u00a0band added)\u00c2\u00a0will “align” with national standards?\u00c2\u00a0 With Common Core, the problem of knowing which credits transfer when student come in from out of state will dissipate and Florida will have a better comparison to other states on how well its students perform,” said Mary Jane Tappen, the state Department of Education deputy chancellor for curriculum.\u00c2\u00a0But evidently,this is\u00c2\u00a0not the case\u00c2\u00a0when it comes to science education.<\/p>\n

Update. \u00c2\u00a0See my letter in the Lakeland Ledger.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, The Consortium of Florida Education Foundation,gathered for a regional session to focus on what businesses and industry leaders say they need in future workers and how the education system is changing to meet those needs. The meeting focused on\u00c2\u00a0“The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-sb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1619,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1619","url_meta":{"origin":1747,"position":0},"title":"Florida’s science standards: I’m confused","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in May, the State Board of Education talked for a few minutes about the state's science standards woes. 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