Monthly Archives: February 2012

From the website of Achieve, the National Governors’ Association unit that works on educational standards, including the Common Core math and language arts standards and the Next Generation Science Standards: Since the Sputnik launch, Americans have regarded science education as vital to … Continue reading →

A bill allowing UF and FSU to charge market-rate tuition is charging toward approval in both houses of the Florida Legislature, according to the News Service of Florida. But there is a huge obstacle for the proposal in the Governor’s office. … Continue reading →

That from yesterday’s invited session of talks sponsored by the American Physical Society’s Forum on Education at the society’s March Meeting. I wrote the quote down by hand, so it might not be perfectly accurate.  But the gist of the … Continue reading →

So reports Leslie Postal at School Zone.  Why?  Florida State Board of Education Member Roberto Martinez said during today’s board meeting that he called Fordham and that others had as well. So much for objectivity. Meanwhile, NRC K-12 Science Framework Committee … Continue reading →

The Lakeland Ledger reported today that the language of Senate bills 1366 and 1368 on STEM education at the K-12 and postsecondary levels has been inserted into a new House bill, HB 7135.  With that action, the Senate proposals, both authored by … Continue reading →

In addition to limiting general education requirements to 30 credit hours, SB 1366 would move some of the authority for setting general education requirements away from the faculty senates at the individual institutions to statewide faculty committees. SB 1366 gets … Continue reading →

Stanford Physics Professor Emerita and NRC K-12 Science Framework Committee Chair Helen Quinn leads off a session of invited talks at 11:15 am on Tuesday at the APS March Meeting in Boston.  The session, titled “K-12 Science Education:  Closing the … Continue reading →

Florida Gulf Coast University’s Michael Fauerbach has been elected to the chair line of the APS Forum on Education.  He will serve as Vice Chair this year and Chair Elect in 2013.  Fauerbach’s chair year will be 2014. Fauerbach earned … Continue reading →

Report from Gradebook here.

I’d argue that Florida’s public universities have a great deal of work to do in recalibrating their priorities.  There is just no way to justify the approach represented by Chancellor Brogan when in September he said to a News Service … Continue reading →