Monthly Archives: July 2011

In a News Service of Florida story published in the St. Augustine Record, FSU School of Teacher Education Director Larry Scharmann said, according to reporter Lilly Rockwell, …he is concerned teachers won’t be interested in master’s degree programs now that … Continue reading →

Some excerpts from the News Service of Florida story (as printed in today’s St. Augustine Record): Gov. Rick Scott has begun discreetly promoting the same changes to the higher education system that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has championed. The proposals … Continue reading →

A letter to the editor from a Chapel Hill science teacher in today’s Raleigh News and Observer (which published the Haase and Cottle op-ed and then its own editorial on the subject of preparation for science and engineering careers) points … Continue reading →

An article on the evaluation of teacher preparation programs in Florida by News Service of Florida education reporter Lilly Rockwell (the article is linked here from the North Escambia News) quoted FSU School of Teacher Education Director Larry Scharmann, one … Continue reading →

See this editorial in the Raleigh News and Observer.  And now it’s been picked up by the Charlotte Observer. The concluding paragraph: Are we going to do something about this, or, to paraphrase part of Newton’s First Law of Motion, … Continue reading →

The Sentinel is carrying my op-ed in Wednesday’s paper.

Today is the day that the framework is being released. Update (1:30 pm):  The framework has been released.  Here is the Curriculum Matters post.  The document is here: framework Update (1:50 pm):  Ron Matus at Gradebook is expecting a dust-up … Continue reading →

According to Sunday’s St. Pete Times, it’s too soon to know.  But alot of Pinellas County school district money is at stake right now.  In Florida – and elsewhere – professional development in math and science isn’t always all it’s cracked … Continue reading →

From a paper by SUNY-Oswego economist William Goffe in the Summer 2011 issue of the Newsletter of the Forum on Education of the American Physical Society: As a result of increased accountability pressures, U.S. colleges and universities are now directed … Continue reading →

Curriculum Matters reports that the frameworks will be released on Tuesday. At long last. The chair of the committee that wrote the frameworks is Helen Quinn, a Stanford physicist. (h/t to Brandon Haught at Florida Citizens for Science)