A Florida college rated “substandard” in national rankings of education schools said the rankings were “inaccurate and misleading” and rely too much on information obtained on the Internet. The National Council on Teacher Quality released a ranking of college and university elementary and secondary education programs Tuesday. Florida State College at Jacksonville was one of […]
“I say common, you say core! Common!” “Core.” “Common!” “Core.” Teachers working in small groups were corralled to attention by their K-2 math leader. It’s the first day the Florida Department of Education’s 2013 Common Core State Standards Summer Institutes. This two-day session – the first of seven offered around the state – began Tuesday […]
Update: Florida State College at Jacksonville is challenging the NCTQ rankings. The school argues it only has an early childhood education program, but NCTQ included the school in its ranking of early childhood education programs. The school’s dean says early childhood and elementary education certifications have different requirements, and the two should not be combined. […]
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 […]
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