{"id":1907,"date":"2013-06-20T14:08:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T18:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2013-06-20T14:08:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T18:08:23","slug":"padget-comments-on-science-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1907","title":{"rendered":"Padget comments on science standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very late to the party. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/blogs\/gradebook\/florida-needs-better-science-standards-state-board-member-says\/2127472\">Gradebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/features\/blogs\/school-zone\/os-florida-needs-better-science-standards-state-board-member-says-20130619,0,2548956.post?track=rss&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SentinelSchoolZone+%28Sentinel+School+Zone%29\">School Zone<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bridgetotomorrow.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/19\/florida-state-board-of-education-member-john-padget-speaks-on-k-12-science-and-the-ngss\/\">Bridge to Tomorrow<\/a> already posted about Florida Board of Education member John Padget&#8217;s recent comments about the state&#8217;s science standards. Here&#8217;s the video clip:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JEAkwgpcY2A?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very late to the party. The Gradebook, School Zone and Bridge to Tomorrow already posted about Florida Board of Education member John Padget&#8217;s recent comments about the state&#8217;s science standards. Here&#8217;s the video clip:<\/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-uL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1575,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1575","url_meta":{"origin":1907,"position":0},"title":"Time Running Out to Comment on Next Generation Science Standards","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"May 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Time is running out to comment on \"Next Generation Science Standards\" first public draft. 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