{"id":813,"date":"2008-12-04T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=813"},"modified":"2009-01-31T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T15:23:28","slug":"we-need-national-science-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"We Need National Science Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(H\/T to\u00c2\u00a0PZ Myers)<\/p>\n<p>Coming from one of the many countries that do have National Science Standards, I could never understand why America has not adopted this concept years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Greg Laden's Blog : National Science Standards:  We can haz!\" href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/12\/national_science_standards_we.php\">Greg Laden says we should all vote on this idea<\/a>: that we ought to rather thoroughly revamp how science is taught in this country by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/ideas\/view\/create_nationally_required_science_standards\">setting national science standards on the teaching of evolution<\/a>. I think with some hard work it could be done. Of course, there would be a lot of resistance from the ID\/Creationist faction,but who cares?\u00c2\u00a0 Go and vote on this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"entryMeta\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--proximic_content_off--><!-- This is a linked template. Don't mess with it. -->\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"entryMeta newMeta2\"><script src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=rotate&amp;publisher=f5d369e4-d10b-48d8-9015-ee0c80d2c43f\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"arrowNote\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/main\/feedback\/commenting-error.php\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(H\/T to\u00c2\u00a0PZ Myers) Coming from one of the many countries that do have National Science Standards, I could never understand why America has not adopted this concept years ago. Greg Laden says we should all vote on this idea: that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=813\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-d7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1860,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1860","url_meta":{"origin":813,"position":0},"title":"05.02.13 This &#038; That","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Some interesting items of note happened recently: Stifling Science: La. 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