{"id":10946,"date":"2012-02-05T05:15:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T10:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10946"},"modified":"2012-02-05T05:15:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T10:15:10","slug":"are-we-really-that-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10946","title":{"rendered":"Are We Really That Surprised?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/budding-scientist\/2012\/02\/01\/u-s-state-science-standards-are-mediocre-to-awful\/?fullpage\">U.S. State Science Standards Are \u201cMediocre to Awful\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA majority of the states\u2019 standards remain mediocre to awful,\u201d write the authors of the report. Only one state, California, plus the District of Columbia, earned straight A\u2019s. Indiana, Massachusetts, South Carolina and Virginia each scored an A-, and a band of states in and around the northwest, including Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Nebraska, scored F\u2019s. (For any New Yorkers reading this, our standards earned a respectable B+, plus the honor of having \u201csome of the most elegant writing of any science standards document\u201d).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. State Science Standards Are \u201cMediocre to Awful\u201d \u201cA majority of the states\u2019 standards remain mediocre to awful,\u201d write the authors of the report. Only one state, California, plus the District of Columbia, earned straight A\u2019s. Indiana, Massachusetts, South Carolina &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10946\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,40,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-politics","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}