A new nationwide education survey released this morning has some interesting implications in Florida, namely that the state sometimes disagrees with the national view on education. The biggest difference between Florida and the nation in the Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll phone survey of 1002 people is on class sizes. The poll sets up a choice […]
Journalist Steven Brill was on “The Diane Rehm Show” this morning discussing New York City schools’ “Rubber Rooms,” where teachers facing disciplinary action sit and wait — collecting pay checks and taking summers off — in what Brill wrote can be an endless process. Brill is also the author of “Class Warfare: Inside the Fight […]
Former Atlanta school chief Beverly Hall has a column in Education Week addressing her school district’s cheating on state tests. Her conclusion? Don’t blame the reforms. “Should I have anticipated cheating, based on dramatic gains in test scores? With hindsight, I wish I had. But there was every reason to believe that our dramatic […]
Congress needs to reauthorize federal No Child Left Behind education standards, but President Barack Obama is growing tired of waiting. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said a month ago that the agency planned to issue waivers to exempt some states from NCLB requirements as many states claim a high percentage of their schools will fail […]
The National Center for Education Information released its most recent national teacher survey this morning and it shows some changes among the country’s 3.2 million educators. Teachers are “slightly more satisfied” with their working conditions and community status than they were in 2005, 1996, 1990 and 1986 surveys. About 40 percent of teachers hired since […]
The state is stepping up its standards on the written portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test to prepare for coming tougher national standards and to weed out essays that seem coached for better scores, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Finally, the department doesn’t want to see evidence that students have memorized phrases to use […]
While the headline of this morning’s state Board of Education meeting was Miami-Dade and Duval county schools getting another year to turn around struggling schools, the takeaway was a conversation about shortcomings in the way Florida judges troubled schools. The problem is the state expects more once schools are classified as troubled, school officials said, […]
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