Monthly Archives: April 2015

Most of what I write on this blog is of interest to only a small group of people, or expresses a viewpoint out of step with everyone else, or is so personal that no one else could possibly be interested. … Continue reading →

Update Tuesday, April 28, 4:45 pm:  With the sudden and unexpected termination of the House session this afternoon, it is likely that the Florida Best and Brightest Teacher Scholarship Program – along with lots of other initiatives moving through the … Continue reading →

A media release from the Orlando Science Schools: The Washington Post released an article naming the top 2300 Most Challenging Top Ranked Schools in the Nation with OSHS coming in at # 56 in the nation and ranking #13 in … Continue reading →

My regular readers (both of you) were probably completely puzzled by my spoof post on the rules regulating FSU’s e-series courses, which are the university’s signature liberal arts courses.  They are intended to be instructional models.  As only the most … Continue reading →

See correction at the bottom!! The Florida State University Faculty Senate has passed a new rule regarding literature and music courses in the university’s signature e-series liberal arts program that will require each of these courses to include a mathematical … Continue reading →

While the underrepresentation of black students among Florida’s AP exam passers in math and science is profound, the underrepresentation of females among these students is severe in some of these subjects as well.  And Hispanics are underrepresented as well, although not … Continue reading →

If you are a Florida education policy-maker who read last week’s posts by Ron Matus at redefinedonline.org and Mike Thomas at Ed Fly about the 2014 Advanced Placement cohort report released by the Florida Department of Education, you could be … Continue reading →

Those who follow Florida education policy know about the state’s success in reading instruction, especially at the elementary level (read a Florida Department of Education press release on this subject here). But what about the state’s performance on math and … Continue reading →

This post is inspired by two recent events.  One is the Florida Senate’s decision to require an independent psychometric assessment of the validity of the Florida Standards Assessment (see the School Zone report on this here).  The other is last … Continue reading →

Not to minimize the issue raised by the Washington Post story on minority underrepresentation among students at Florida’s State University System institutions, but in my view this is a bigger problem:  Black students (and to a lesser extent Hispanic students) are underrepresented … Continue reading →