Monthly Archives: May 2017

Update, June 3:  Governor Scott vetoed FSU’s STEM Teaching Lab project yesterday, along with $400 million worth of other projects.   After each annual session of the Florida Legislature, Florida Taxwatch issues a list of budget line items that the … Continue reading →

There is a dizzying amount of stuff in HB 7069, the controversial education policy bill that will soon be on Governor Scott’s desk.  So a harried teacher, parent or school board member can be forgiven for missing the bit of … Continue reading →

Every North Florida educator at every level should read Slate’s piece titled “The New Diploma Mills”, which nominally focuses on the shortcomings of online credit recovery courses that are used to boost high school graduation rates.  Author Zoe Kirch argues that these … Continue reading →

The Democrat published my op-ed on how students learn science.  The op-ed described how students learn both from the perspective of our own experience in the FSU Studio Physics Program and from the perspective of the NYU and UF researchers who recorded … Continue reading →

In the Summer 2011 issue of Education Next, Stanford’s Eric Hanushek said this:  “The quality of the teachers in our schools is paramount: no other measured aspect of schools is nearly as important in determining student achievement.” If you accept this … Continue reading →

A group of researchers led by neuroscientists and engineers from New York University and the University of Florida recently announced the results of a study of how high school students learn science best. In this study, electrodes were attached to … Continue reading →

Once during each legislative session, FSU brings a large delegation of faculty, students and staff to the Capitol to show off, as the university should.  This year, FSU Day at the Capitol was April 4. An FSU photographer followed President … Continue reading →

Sooner or later, every educator has to come to terms with this truth: that each triumph is the result of a one-on-one encounter. Maybe you are a classroom teacher who has a conversation with a student that straightens out a … Continue reading →

From the FLDOE web site, which as always is an amazing source of information.

If Governor Scott signs the mammoth education policy bill HB 7069 into law, it will impose a new academic requirement to take a civics literacy course on students at Florida’s public colleges and universities. The bill language offers the possibility … Continue reading →