The second day started with Arne Duncan talking about what his agency is doing and closed with Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels’ stem winder urging reformers to “go big or go home.”
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 […]
Editor’s Note: This is a first-person story from WUSF reporter Yoselis Ramos, who is studying to become a teacher. She recently hopped a bus with other teachers to attend a Jacksonville town hall meeting. Along the way she spoke with her fellow travelers about what its like to lead a classroom. You can watch “American […]
A charter school affiliated with Florida State University is building an online community to support the state’s more than 500 charter schools. The site, developers say, will serve as a hub for curriculum, instruction and assessment assistance tailored for charter schools. The hub will build off the current CPALMS site, which offers the same types […]
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