Jeb Bush On MSNBC's "Morning Joe" : Controversy in Florida
What Florida Does, So Will Our Nation?
& High-Stake Standardized Test Scores
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush visited Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski last week during their special "Great Expectations" in Education day at Alexander Elementary School in Gainsborough, Florida. He had much to crow about with NAEP scores in Florida being an outlier state showing gains while the rest of the country stagnated. However, the state of Florida is enbroiled in a hot-bed of controversy between teachers and policy-makers. Here is a bit of background info:
See here for conservative-oriented The Foundry's recap. An excerpt:
"Results from the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessment have just been released and are, well, uninspiring. Reading achievement, despite significant increases in spending over the past few decades and increasing federal policy intervention in the past decade, has remained flat.
The lackluster results indicate that the top-down approach of federal policy, characterized by No Child Left Behind and the current administration's policy, has not led to significant increases in student achievement.
But, despite the bad news, there is an outlier among the states- Florida. The Sunshine