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December 19, 2012

13th Grade: ‘Common Core’ Standards Aim To Smooth The Path From K-12 to College

In Florida, a high school diploma is not the same thing as a certificate of college readiness. In 2011 alone, more than 30,000 students learned this the hard way. After graduating from high school or receiving a G.E.D., they went on to community or state colleges in Florida and promptly failed at least one subject […]

December 18, 2012

13th Grade: What Florida Colleges Are Doing To Help More Students Complete Remedial Courses

Jamille Cunningham’s primary learning tool in her remedial reading course at St. Petersburg College is a computer program. When Cunningham, 20, started the course, the program diagnosed her as weak in all but a handful of reading skills. It then directed her to a series of learning modules focused on skills she needed to improve, […]

December 17, 2012

Florida’s 13th Public University May Be Online Only

Does Florida need a 13th public university that would be devoted solely to online learning? The Florida Board of Governors (BOG), which oversees the state university system, is looking into it at a meeting today in Davie. The 2012 Florida Legislature provided funds to the BOG to hire a consulting firm that would study the […]

13th Grade: Older, Returning Students Strain Florida’s Community and State Colleges

Pepper Harth has always loved music. After high school, she studied voice and acting in New York. Her life took several turns. She married, had three children, divorced and sold real estate in New Jersey. She moved with her children to Seminole, Fla., in 2007. Work was not as plentiful in Florida as she had […]

December 15, 2012

What’s Required In Florida School Safety Plans

A shooter entered a Connecticut school and opened fire Friday. While details are still emerging, it’s worth looking at what Florida schools must do to prepare for an on-campus emergency. The Florida Department of Education has a statewide policy outlining how school’s should prepare and respond to an on-campus emergency. The policy was approved in […]

December 14, 2012

Is Gov. Scott’s Testing Proposal A Trojan Horse For Vouchers?

Teacher’s unions and critics of Florida’s various private school scholarship programs have long argued that students who received those scholarships should have to face the same scrutiny as public school students. That means taking the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test — or its upcoming successor — in order to make apples-to-apples comparisons between school performance. But […]

Governor Says Job Openings Show The Need For More STEM Graduates

The Governor’s Office is touting the rise in STEM-related job openings in Florida over the last year. Gov. Rick Scott is using the numbers to continue his push for more STEM degrees (science, technology, engineering, math). His office announced this week that job openings in science and tech fields have increased by nearly 14 percent […]

December 13, 2012

Report: College Remedial System Needs A Major Overhaul

A new report says college remedial education programs are not working, often have no bearing on a student’s field of study and should be scrapped. Instead, researchers from Complete College America argue, most students should have to take a set of core classes to prepare them for college. These courses should match up with the […]

December 10, 2012

13th Grade: Why More Florida Students Than Ever Struggle With Math

In the 2010-11 school year, some 125,042 Florida college students needed to take a remedial math class, more than double the number requiring remedial classes in reading (54,489) or writing (50,906)

December 7, 2012

2011-2012 Florida District Administrator Evaluations

The Florida Department of Education released some administrator evaluation data for the 2011-12 school year on Dec. 5. This is the first time the state has released data for the new administrator evaluations.

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