Florida’s F on Early Childhood Education
In this morning’s Ocala Star-Banner, Amanda Ostrander from Florida Children’s Campaign and Roy Miller, the president and founder of the Children’s Campaign point to Florida policymakers poor record on early childhood education is hurting the state’s children. …..the education debate goes on about the next silver bullet, funding and the quality elements Florida’s pre-K needs continue to be passed o
Does Pearson’s NY Common Core $7.7 Million Settlement Implicate Jeb Bush’s Foundation?
From Washington Post reporter Lyndsey Layton: Pearson Charitable Foundation, the nonprofit arm of educational publishing giant Pearson Inc., has agreed to pay a $7.7 million settlement to New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman after he determined that the foundation had created Common Core products to generate “tens of millions of dollars” for its corporate sister. “The law on this is cle
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 about the Common Core, and she offers too many of both in a new Politico op-ed. Let’s start with the most aggravating thing she does in her piece: imply that anyone who oppo
Florida Teacher Evaluations Are “Pseudo Science”
Dan Bennett is vice president of the Brevard Teachers Union. The following is a letter to the editor he penned to FloridaToday: Anyone confused by the teacher evaluation system? For decades, school reformers have mined FCAT data in different ways to get different results. To figure school grades, the state looks at a percentage of students on grade level or making learning gains. But then to figur
12-14-13 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: Jeb Bush’s Rhetoric Proves Hypocritical When His Allies Seek to Defend Florida Charter SchoolsWriting in redifinED, Step Up for Student’s Patrick Gibbons took exception to the Palm Beach Post’s report that charter schools were to blame for the county’ low graduation rat