Five Florida teacher training programs have landed on a list of schools dubbed “substandard,” according to a new national ranking of education programs. The National Council on Teacher Quality ranked more than 1,100 programs at education schools across the country on how well they teach reading, math, classroom management, special education and other criteria. The [...]
Hundreds of kids in foster care are working on science, technology, engineering and math — otherwise known as STEM – projects this summer. The projects are part of the Florida Department of Children and Families Camps for Champions. “Many foster children don’t have the same opportunities to travel and learn new activities like their peers [...]
Editor’s note: This post was authored by Sarah Butrymowicz with The Hechinger Report. Somewhere midway through his sophomore year of college at Florida Atlantic University, Christopher Clevenger started to question his aeronautical engineering major. He liked the coursework, and was doing well at it, but when he thought about his job prospects, the future seemed [...]
Editor’s note: This post was authored by Sarah Butrymowicz with The Hechinger Report. Lee-Anne Spalding’s Elementary School Social Studies class at the University of Central Florida had spread out over the room in small groups. One group of sophomore college students huddled over a set of poetry books, picking out ones they liked. Others gathered [...]
Florida teachers and school administrators will get help this summer understanding how to implement Common Core State Standards. The new standards are designed to make sure high school graduates are adequately prepared for college or the workforce. The standards are based on international benchmarks at each grade level. Common Core assessments will be given at [...]
Seven out of ten educators in a national survey said they have had at least two days of training for new, tougher education standards adopted by Florida and 44 other states. But more than half of those surveyed disagreed that their textbooks and curriculum were aligned with the new standards. That’s according to a national [...]
60 Minutes profiled historian David McCullough on Sunday night. McCullough believes the U.S. is illiterate when it comes to history and says part of the blame is due to how the U.S. trains teachers. Teachers should have to study a subject and not education, McCullough says. Teachers must be passionate and knowledgeable about a subject [...]
Hillsborough County schools are retaining more than nine of every ten new teachers they hire with the help of a mentoring program funded by a $100 million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Teacher retention has been a persistent problem nationally, with some studies finding as many as half of all new [...]
For today’s installment in our series, The Secret Lives of Students, students write a letter to their future teachers.
Editor’s note: This post was written by rising middle school students Teley Laporte and Joshua Partridge.
Miami-Dade public schools’ technology education is getting a $75,000 boost from a Verizon Foundation. The Education Fund will dole out the grant to help Miami Dade teachers and students in STEM programs – science, technology, engineering and math – during the upcoming school year. The money will help teachers to implement a new initiative called “bring [...]
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