Monthly Archives: April 2014

This story written by a student at a prominent midwestern liberal arts school is worth taking seriously: My senior year of high school, I used to tell extended family and curious teachers that I was going to major in English … Continue reading →

The Future Physicists of Florida returned to the web this morning with a post about physics majors from Florida who were honored by the Goldwater Scholarship program this year.  There are eight of them, and they attend a variety of … Continue reading →

Released by the Associated Press yesterday.  I’m a teetotaler, but perhaps you want to get a beer or a glass of wine before reading this, even if there aren’t any surprises here.  The main document is here. It just seemed … Continue reading →

The tax credit scholarship expansion has reemerged in the Senate though an amendment to SB 1512, which has now been adopted by the Senate Appropriations Committee. Everything science education advocates need to know about this amendment is contained in this language … Continue reading →

A line from an op-ed in Saturday’s Gainesville Sun written by Alachua County School Board member Eileen Roy (and brought my attention via a tweet from Florida Citizens for Science Communications Director Brandon Haught) has stopped me dead in my tracks: Teaching … Continue reading →

A survey of Fortune 500 CEO’s conducted by the executive search firm Spencer Stuart and published in 2008 showed that the most common bachelor’s degree major among this elite group was engineering.  The 22% of CEO’s that held an engineering … Continue reading →

Those of you who have been following my blog for years will not be surprised to learn I am up to my neck in AP Physics 1 and 2 stuff.  No, I don’t teach it – I’m a university professor. … Continue reading →

It was sort of funny, actually.  Yesterday, State Impact Florida proclaimed the passing of the FCAT, complete with an illustration of a gravestone.  I responded to their tweet advertising their post by pointing out that their statement was incorrect, that in fact … Continue reading →

Responses from 35 postsecondary institutions to an inquiry by a unit of the American Physical Society show that many leading universities are planning to award credit to students who score well on the new algebra-based AP Physics courses. AP Physics … Continue reading →

Tomorrow’s SBOE workshop on quality teaching and teacher preparation will conclude with a Board discussion titled “What are Florida’s next steps?” There is general agreement that it is critical to get more great teachers into high needs schools.  And the Board … Continue reading →