{"id":157,"date":"2006-01-06T10:23:40","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T16:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2006-01-06T11:12:54","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T17:12:54","slug":"15-states-flunk-school-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"15 States Flunk School Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a nonprofit education-research group in Washington, D. C., gave letter grades to public school science standards and curricula in 49 of the 50 U.S. states*. Here&#8217;s how they stacked up. (You can read the full report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edexcellence.net\/institute\/publication\/publication.cfm?id=352\"><b>here<\/b><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><b>A<\/b>: California, New Mexico, Indiana, Virginia, South Carolina, New York, Massachusetts<br \/>\n<b>B<\/b>: Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois, Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio, West Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia<br \/>\n<b>C<\/b>: Washington, Utah, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island<br \/>\n<b>D<\/b>: Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arkansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Maine<br \/>\n<b>F<\/b>: Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, New Hampshire<\/p>\n<p>* They skipped Iowa because it doesn&#8217;t publish school science standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does your state measure up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16361,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/16361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}