Monthly Archives: May 2011

From the report What’s it Worth?  The Economic Value of College Major, from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, the ten majors with the highest median earnings: Petroleum Engineering $120,000 Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Sciences and Administration $105,000 Mathematics … Continue reading →

Update (June 1, 8:00 am):  FCR-STEM at FSU announces, Two-Week Summer Workshops for Science Teachers!  Huzzah! (h/t Curriculum Matters) An Institute of Education Sciences study demonstrates that optimally designed two-week summer workshops for middle school math teachers do not significantly … Continue reading →

The Orlando Sentinel reports that the Florida Board of Education has set a new deadline for applications to be the state’s Commissioner of Education – June 6.  The pool of nineteen applicants apparently did not provide enough strong candidates to … Continue reading →

Update (12:30 pm):  School Zone has a report.  It’s not quite waving a white flag, but the State Board will consider extending the application deadline in a conference call at 6 pm this evening (yes, Friday of Memorial Day weekend).  … Continue reading →

As far as I can tell, the only university building project that Governor Scott did not veto yesterday was a $35 million science building at Senator Alexander’s USF Polytechnic in Lakeland.  Senator Alexander is the Senate Budget Chief. The Alexander … Continue reading →

From Public Education Finances: 2009 (h/t Curriculum Matters)

Yesterday was the sort of day on which education reporters lose some of the enamel on their teeth – because they are grinding them so much. The application deadline for the job of Florida Education Commissioner was last night at … Continue reading →

When St. Petersburg High IB program graduate Kristen Collar arrived at Florida State University in the fall of 2007, she knew she liked science and math but wasn’t sure how that would translate into a career.  Fortunately, she was invited … Continue reading →