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FSU physics professor Paul Cottle says: Why do I push so hard to keep students who took Algebra 1 in middle school moving through the science and engineering pipeline by taking the right math and science courses?\u00c2\u00a0 Because I know they could be doing this in seven short years<\/a> …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FSU physics professor Paul Cottle says: Why do I push so hard to keep students who took Algebra 1 in middle school moving through the science and engineering pipeline by taking the right math and science courses?\u00c2\u00a0 Because I know … 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-yA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1191,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1191","url_meta":{"origin":2144,"position":0},"title":"Florida isn’t alone in science testing woes","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is an interesting article about Massachusetts high school students failing required science exams needed for graduation. If I'm reading the story and associated graphic correctly, more students failed science than either math or English, resulting in no diploma. I admit I know nothing about Massachusetts' science test and requirements,\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1191#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1056,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1056","url_meta":{"origin":2144,"position":1},"title":"11th-grade science FCAT vs. end-of-course exams","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Orlando Sentinel education blog has a post up reporting that a group of concerned science professors is pushing hard to kill off the 11th-grade science FCAT and replace it with relevant end-of-course exams. 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