{"id":773,"date":"2008-11-07T22:05:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T02:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=773"},"modified":"2008-12-29T22:00:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T03:00:43","slug":"orlando-sentinel-on-our-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Sentinel on our standards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Orlando Sentinel noticed the issue<\/a> concerning our science standards, but just on their School Zone blog. I don’t think it made it into the actual paper.<\/p>\n

The Florida Department of Education says it is still researching the issue but stands by its new standards and does not expect it will have to rehash the entire issue again. The state also adopted new reading and math standards before the “next generation” law was on the books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Orlando Sentinel noticed the issue concerning our science standards, but just on their School Zone blog. I don’t think it made it into the actual paper. The Florida Department of Education says it is still researching the issue but … 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":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-ct","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":293,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=293","url_meta":{"origin":773,"position":0},"title":"News article about draft science standards","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 21, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida Citizens for Science president, Joe Wolf, had an excellent quote in an Orlando Sentinel story this weekend about the new draft of the state science standards. He did a great job of playing down this \"controversy\" over evolution by putting it into realistic perspective. Thanks, Joe! On the other\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":302,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=302","url_meta":{"origin":773,"position":1},"title":"Orlando Sentinel: Let there be light","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 25, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Columnist Mike Thomas of the Orlando Sentinel writes in today's paper that evolution is getting quite a bit of support in the draft science standards. We are moving toward intelligently designed science curriculum in public schools. And by that I mean we are leaving intelligent design out of classrooms. 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This position would surely open the door to those who\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 12 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 12 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1728#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1897,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1897","url_meta":{"origin":773,"position":4},"title":"Science Standards stuff heating up","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"You'll have to excuse me for the flurry of links I'm about to unleash here, but there's a lot going on concerning our state science standards. 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