{"id":971,"date":"2009-03-25T16:48:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T20:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=971"},"modified":"2009-04-30T19:29:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T23:29:19","slug":"professors-fight-to-keep-physics-in-the-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"Professors Fight to Keep Physics in the Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five professors who all sat on the state’s science standards committee, worry that three bills supported by the Florida Department of Education make no mention of physics in proposed high school graduation requirements. The group has implored\u00c2\u00a0Commissioner Eric J. Smith (himself a science teacher) in a letter<\/span><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0sent this morning to reconsider his backing of CS\/HB 543<\/a>, HB 1293<\/a> and SB 2654<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The letter writers are FCS supporter\u00c2\u00a0Paul Cottle, FSU physics professor, Florida Gulf Coast associate professor of physics Michael Fauerbach, FSU associate professor of physics Hon Kie Ng, FSU professor of physics Harrison B. Prosper and FSU professor of physics Horst Wahl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five professors who all sat on the state’s science standards committee, worry that three bills supported by the Florida Department of Education make no mention of physics in proposed high school graduation requirements. The group has implored\u00c2\u00a0Commissioner Eric J. Smith … Continue reading →<\/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-fF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1057,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1057","url_meta":{"origin":971,"position":0},"title":"What the professors said","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Following up on yesterday's post about Florida science professors wanting end-of-course tests rather than the 11th grade FCAT, here is the white paper they wrote and here is the list of folks who signed it. Below is the text of their statement: --------------------------- Graduation Requirements and Assessment Policy for High\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1009,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1009","url_meta":{"origin":971,"position":1},"title":"Science Professors Press Gov Crist for Action","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"April 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Over a \u00c2\u00a0100 Florida professors of physics, earth\/space science and related fields\u00c2\u00a0have asked\u00c2\u00a0Gov. Charlie Crist to\u00c2\u00a0oppose legislative plans that they fear would leave\u00c2\u00a0physics on the fringes of science instruction in high schools. 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