Pearson and Tony Bennett’s Employer Among Five Firms Want Contract to Make Florida’s New FCAT
Orlando Sentinel reporter Leslie Postal has the details on the upcoming food fight: Five standardized test makers are vying to help create FCAT’s replacement by 2015. They include Pearson, the testing company that has the FCAT contract, and ACT, best known for its namesake college admissions tests, shows the list released today by the Florida Department of Education. The most notable name may be o
Jeb Bush: the New Status Quo
Jeb Bush and his top dollar mouthpieces have become the gift that keeps on giving. Let’s call them on two of their recent public statements. Last week, top policy wonk Matt Ladner touted Florida’ s record at narrowing the achievement gap between black and white students and concluded with this bit of hyperbole: Florida achieved this progress on achievement gaps the best way possible: strong gains
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: CATO Slams Michelle Rhee’s “Common Core Crud”H/T to Russ Walsh. CATO Institute scholar Neal McCluskey takes Michelle Rhee to the woodshed: I don’t dislike the oft-attacked Michelle Rhee. I don’t even know her. But I do dislike disingenuous or empirically anemic arguments