Monthly Archives: April 2012

The highly visible UTeach math and science teacher education movement has some good news in Florida:  The Florida Institute of Technology will be starting a UTeach replication site with Florida’s Race to the Top dollars.  The institution has been aggressive … Continue reading →

From Jeffrey Mervis’ blog ScienceInsider: A senior Republican legislator unwittingly became a poster child yesterday for one of the Obama Administration’s key initiatives to improve science education. “In high school, I had won the Bausch & Lomb science award, and … Continue reading →

Governor Scott today vetoed the “preeminence” bill that would have allowed FSU and UF to raise tuition to “market” rates. You can read the Tampa Bay Times article on the veto here. But what will happen next is laid out in … Continue reading →

From The Telegraph: Researchers warned that qualifications in subjects such as the sciences, economics, business studies and computing were failing to prepare teenagers for the demands of university or the workplace. In a report, it was claimed that maths was a … Continue reading →

According to the Gainesville Sun, UF has reversed its decision to do away with the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering after an admirably successful public effort by advocates for the department. However, it’s likely the core issue … Continue reading →

I learned at a meeting last week that the release of the first draft of the “Next Generation Science Standards” – the new national science standards being developed by Achieve on the basis of the NRC’s K-12 Science Framework – … Continue reading →

In fact, a Gainesville Sun article on the Governor’s question-and-answer session with reporters today quotes Governor Scott saying, “I have drafts of both sides — a veto letter and an approval letter.”

As published in the Boston Herald: A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and knowledge. …While there’s strong demand in science, education and health … Continue reading →

Like it or not, Governor Scott signed the legislation creating Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland.  Here’s the report from the Tampa Bay Times.

From the Wall Street Journal’s “Real Time Economics” blog, in a post titled “Key Reason for Wage Inequality is Education“: Gary Zank, the head of the physics department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, says there’s so much demand for promising graduate students … Continue reading →