Monthly Archives: June 2018

Black students remain severely underrepresented in Florida’s STEM career pipeline.  Among Florida public K-12 school students, 22% are black.  Yet in 2015-16, black students earned only 6.8% of SUS bachelors’ degrees in engineering, 11.1% of the system’s bachelors’ degrees in … Continue reading →

Sandy Stenoff, a Central Florida parent of two children in the public schools and a co-founder of the Opt Out Florida Network, tweeted to me in response to a tweet in which I mentioned the rising number of Florida middle … Continue reading →

Collier County blew by Florida’s usual STEM leaders to establish itself as the state’s number one district for middle school Algebra 1, according to my analysis of the Algebra 1 end-of-course (EOC) exam results released yesterday by the Florida Department … Continue reading →

The numbers of middle school students passing Florida’s Algebra 1 end of course exam continued to surge this year, according to testing results released by the Florida Department of Education today. Students who pass Algebra 1 in 8th grade or … Continue reading →

In a letter to the editor published in Wednesday’s Orlando Sentinel, Colleen Berry criticized the Sentinel’s Sunday article “Private schools’ curriculum downplays slavery, says humans and dinosaurs lived together” by saying “The article blasted Christian-school texts for being, well, Christian.” … Continue reading →

Florida’s tax credit scholarship program and the state’s other private school scholarship programs have provided Catholic schools with financial security and the opportunity to reach out to low income families in a way that would not otherwise have been possible. … Continue reading →

If you haven’t yet read the Orlando Sentinel article “Private schools’ curriculum downplays slavery, says humans and dinosaurs lived together”, you should.  You should read it especially if you are a school choice supporter or (like me) a school choice … Continue reading →

Here is the abstract of a New York Fed report released in 2016 on underemployment of post-recession college graduates.  Two figures ranking college majors by underemployment probability are shown below.  [Hat tip to Inside Higher Ed] Though labor market conditions steadily … Continue reading →

The highest priority in K-12 education for the State of Florida should be increasing the number of talented individuals who are attracted to teaching careers and then retaining them in the profession. We hear and read so much about a … Continue reading →