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Sebring High School is working toward putting some emphasis on math and science education<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As her students study biology, [Angie] Mann and her fellow science teachers at Sebring high and statewide will be learning the new science standards they will start teaching students next school year.<\/p>\n

“It’s a big changeover,” Mann said.<\/p>\n

The science curriculum across all grade levels will not just be different but more detailed compared to what is being taught.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

[Principal Toni Stivender said:] “There was such an emphasis on reading that it just dominated education for years and years, now we’re finding that compared to the world, we’re really lacking in the areas of math and science.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sebring High School is working toward putting some emphasis on math and science education. As her students study biology, [Angie] Mann and her fellow science teachers at Sebring high and statewide will be learning the new science standards they will … 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-dk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":150,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=150","url_meta":{"origin":826,"position":0},"title":"Yet another story about dismal science testing projections","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 6, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's yet another story preparing folks for sinking school grades as a result of science counting on the FCAT and other factors. 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