Comments on: Florida: The Whole World is Watching https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/03/florida-the-whole-world-is-wat/ Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:27:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: motm https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/03/florida-the-whole-world-is-wat/#comment-2502 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:27:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/03/florida-the-whole-world-is-wat/#comment-2502 I suggest the opposite: host MORE science conferences in hostile states. By removing them, you only help to widen the gap making things harder in the future when something like this goes to court.

]]> By: RobertC https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/03/florida-the-whole-world-is-wat/#comment-2501 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:33:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/03/florida-the-whole-world-is-wat/#comment-2501 I’m sure this has been said before, but we have got to stop hosting science conferences in states hostile to science!

]]> By: cope https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/03/florida-the-whole-world-is-wat/#comment-2500 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:57:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/03/florida-the-whole-world-is-wat/#comment-2500 Actually, I believe these are the last couple of public meetings soliciting public feedback on the new standards. No decisions will be made in these meetings. Several have already been held without any major dust-ups. The final approval/disapproval of these science standards will be at a meeting of the Florida State Board of Education next month.There was also a website (now closed to comment) also soliciting input from anybody who cared to add their 2 cents.As a teacher on the committee to rewrite the state standards (earth/space science only, but evolution and the big bang are both in our portion of the rewritten standards), I am fairly familiar with what is going on. We members of the committee (well, at least the ones I am in contact with) are cautiously optimistic. We were charged by the State Department of Education with (among other things) “creating world-class standards.” We hope they hold themselves to this same level of expectation.

]]> By: Scott Belyea https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/03/florida-the-whole-world-is-wat/#comment-2499 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:30:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/03/florida-the-whole-world-is-wat/#comment-2499

Florida: The Whole World is Watching

Hmmm. I’m curious whether this is intended to be sarcastic or serious.If the latter, it sounds like a case of navel-gazing so deeply that your nose gets stuck …

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