{"id":1874,"date":"2013-05-26T10:58:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T14:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2013-05-26T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T14:58:12","slug":"science-in-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1874","title":{"rendered":"Science in middle school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sounds like good news for science education in Hillsborough County: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/education\/college\/usf-gets-millions-to-train-new-stem-teachers\/2123057\">USF gets millions to train new STEM teachers<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe University of South Florida is focused on producing a new crop of STEM middle school teachers, thanks to the school&#8217;s largest ever gift from the Helios Education Foundation \u00e2\u20ac\u201d $3.16 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>More than 90 percent of middle school students in the U.S. are taught math or science by a teacher working outside a field of expertise, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>In young minds, research shows, that can have dire consequences. Math and science literacy for American 15-year-old students dropped steadily over a decade compared to students in other countries, according to an international assessment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It happens to be a time in school when students tend to disengage around math and sciences,&#8221; said Stacy Carlson, vice president and program director for Helios in Florida. &#8220;If you can affect the effectiveness of teachers in the classroom, you can improve student achievement.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sounds like good news for science education in Hillsborough County: USF gets millions to train new STEM teachers The University of South Florida is focused on producing a new crop of STEM middle school teachers, thanks to the school&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1874\">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-ue","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1314,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1314","url_meta":{"origin":1874,"position":0},"title":"Elementary school teachers need more science","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Center for American Progress issued a report recently entitled Slow Off the Mark: Elementary School Teachers and the Crisis in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education. 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