Florida’s falling rank on a nation education survey is evidence lawmakers need to increase school funding, state education officials said Thursday morning. Florida fell to 11th from 5th on the annual “Quality Counts” rankings released by Education Week this morning. Florida was ranked lower in both academic achievement and financing in the survey. Gov. Rick […]
The state has fewer “F” schools and more “A” and “B” schools, according to new high school grades released by the state. TheĀ Florida Department of EducationĀ said, “Based on the results… school recognition funds will be determined and will reward schools that have sustained high student performance or demonstrated substantial improvement in student performance.” The “A” […]
The University of Florida is the second-best college value for in-state students in the country, according to Kiplinger Personal Finance magazine. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was the top-ranked school. New College in Sarasota was close behind, ranked 5th overall for in-state tuition value. Kiplinger‘s said they altered the rankings this year […]
Yesterday we wrote about the National Assessment of Educational Progress scores, the gold-standard for apples-to-apples comparison of state education. Math and reading scores for fourth and eighth-graders were released yesterday. Here’s five things the nation’s report card tells us about Florida. You can check the results for yourself here.
Three Florida districts landed on charter school Top 10 lists, according to a new report from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Orange County tops the nation for growth in charter school enrollment, up 42 percent during the 2010-2011 school year. Miami-Dade ranked seventh for the total number of students enrolled in charter schools, […]
Florida’s education budget cuts were the sixth-largest in the nation since 2008, according to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report released Friday. Florida spends 18.1 percent less per K-12 student in state money than when the recession began in 2008, once figures are adjusted for inflation, according to the report.That means Florida is […]
When it comes to teaching K-12 students about the nation’s civil rights movement, more than half of U.S. states are failing,Ā according to a new study by theĀ Southern Poverty Law Center. In the study, “Teaching the Movement: The State of Civil Rights Education 2011”,Ā SPLC’s Teaching ToleranceĀ arm looked at each state’s required education standards and curriculum, and […]
Florida students’ math skills rank just below Latvia and slightly better than Lithuania, according to a new state-by-state comparison of international math and reading tests. The U.S. ranks 17th in the world on the Program for International Student Assessment tests, according to the analysis by Harvard University’s Program on Educational Policy and Governance. Florida students […]
Seven Florida colleges placed in the top 100 “Best Buys,” according to a Forbes list released this week, led by the University of Florida at 11, Florida State University at 13, New College of Florida at 16 and the University of North Florida at 19. Those rankings could change, as the South Florida Sun-Sentinel notes, […]
Rollins College and the University of Florida top the list of Florida schools according to Forbes ranking of top colleges and universities, though no state schools crack the top 100. Rollins ranked #133 while UF came in just behind at #137. Florida State University ranked #193, but finished ahead of noted institution New York University. […]
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