Category Archives: Our Science Standards

Dover a win for “teach the controversy”?

Posted on July 17, 2007 by Brandon Haught

We here in Florida are revising the state science standards, so this story about “teach the controversy” is worth reading and keeping in the back of your mind. Basically, the story claims that intelligent design’s tanking in Dover, Pa. was … Continue reading →

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2007 science FCAT scores

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Brandon Haught

Florida’s science FCAT scores were released today. For those who don’t know, the FCAT is the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test given annually to all Florida public school children in grades 3 through 11. The FCAT is supposed to measure what … Continue reading →

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World Class Standards fizzle out

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Brandon Haught

It looks like the idea of establishing World Class Standards (previous post here) fizzled out: Among the measures to die in the Senate were a plan to replace public-school standards with a “world class” curriculum and a bill to create an … Continue reading →

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World Class Standards: leaving the details for later?

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Brandon Haught

This all just sounds silly. So some politicians want to revamp public school standards in Florida. OK. We want those standards to be top-notch so that we can compete with other nations. OK. We’ll leave the details to someone else … Continue reading →

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FCS presents Science Standards draft

Posted on April 9, 2007 by Brandon Haught

Florida Citizens for Science is proud to present the culmination of months of very hard work: a draft of Science Standards for the state of Florida! You can find a pdf copy for download at https://www.flascience.org/FCSstandards.pdf . Here is a … Continue reading →

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Tougher curriculum to come in Florida?

Posted on April 2, 2007 by Brandon Haught

This news article says that Florida legislators will be crafting an education bill to, among other things, create a tougher curriculum. I don’t like the line about “increased emphasis on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.” I wonder if this new … Continue reading →

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What Minnesota went through

Posted on March 24, 2007 by Brandon Haught

Yesterday I posted about Cheri Yecke’s desire to be Florida education commissioner. A commenter at Pharyngula reminded me of a post done a few years back at our old blog site about Minnesota’s fight over the state science standards when … Continue reading →

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Florida math-science education research

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Brandon Haught

We here at Florida Citizens for Science have been following this fairly closely. We were actually rooting for another university to get the one year grant, but you certainly can’t always win when politics are involved. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A … Continue reading →

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