The Week’s Florida Test Data Spin From Jeb Bush and Michelle Rhee
From Sunshine State News: Bad news for Florida’s education system: Students in the Sunshine State who took international tests in math, reading and science last year did worse than other teens in the country and performed far worse than teenagers in the world’s top-performing education systems in Asia, according to Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) scores released Tuesday mornin
Common Core’s Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost in Florida
There’s a nifty little site I can calculate the number of days it has been since my last post – 116 to be exact. More on my sabbatical later. But it seems ironic now that my last post on August 15th was It’s Begun: Florida County’s Republican Assembly Officially Demands Explanations on Common Core.
While some Washington republicans like Sen. Marco Rubio and the Republican National Committee have taken stands against Common Core, the state republican apparatus is far more invested in them – much more, in fact, than most other red states. The purse strings controlled by the Florida Chamber of Commerce, the Council of 100 and Jeb Bush demand rigid compliance
My, oh, my, we’ve come quite a ways haven’t we? And pushback is increasing. State school board members and superintendents have joined the effort. Writes Anastasia Dawson in the Tampa Tribune:
TAMPA — School board members and superintendents from across Florida are hoping to pump the brakes on implementing tougher math and language arts standards into classrooms next school year.Leaders from the Florida Association of District School Superintendents