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calling up Tappen to talk about the standars writing process. dismal news about science education in florida. bad test results across the board. florida is falling behind. goes over history of past standards. rated F three times! standards are a mile wide and inch deep. invited ouside experts to come in and help. framers and writers recruited by recommendation. public review got more than 10000 visitirs to the wesite. huge public response. had other experts review and got a B+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

calling up Tappen to talk about the standars writing process. dismal news about science education in florida. bad test results across the board. florida is falling behind. goes over history of past standards. rated F three times! standards are 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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-7B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1525,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1525","url_meta":{"origin":471,"position":0},"title":"Florida is not at the party","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"So, a little more than half the country (26 states) are at the party, so to speak, doing the exciting work of preparing a set of Next Generation Science Standards. Experts are taking their time and crafting an exemplary guide for the teaching of science. It's time to review the\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 3 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1525#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":330,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=330","url_meta":{"origin":471,"position":1},"title":"Standards are getting a thumbs up","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"November 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This article in the St. Petersburg Times does what every good article should do: talk to the experts. The real experts. This gives such writing proper balance without resorting to the \"equal balance\" fallacy. The paper commissioned their own reviewer to render an opinion about the new draft of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "In the News"","block_context":{"text":"In the News","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2832,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2832","url_meta":{"origin":471,"position":2},"title":"Congratulations! Florida gets an A!","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"A paper in the latest edition of Evolution: Education and Outreach examines how each state's middle school science standards cover evolution (A state-by-state comparison of middle school science standards on evolution in the United States). 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