Monthly Archives: April 2019

In a recent article on The74.com, Chad Alderman of Bellweather Education Partners said that on a national level there are signals that the teacher shortage may be abating. To eliminate any confusion about the Florida situation, I am posting plots … Continue reading →

Each January, the American Physical Society holds a number of regional conferences for undergraduate women physics majors at sites around the nation. More than 1,000 women typically attend these conferences. At the 2017 conferences, the women physics majors were asked … Continue reading →

Carlos Villa, the K-12 Outreach Coordinator for the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, had started to ask the twenty-five Orange County Public School students who he had been leading through an electromagnet exercise late Tuesday afternoon where they were going … Continue reading →

I believe in educational choice. I believe that when a new student steps onto the campus of Florida State University, or the University of Florida, or the University of Central Florida, or Florida Gulf Coast University, that student should be … Continue reading →

At present, the graduation requirements for Florida’s public high schools nominally include four credits in math and three in science. I use the word “nominally” because the state’s statutes presently allow students to substitute certain industry certifications for two of … Continue reading →

If we are going to open the doors of opportunity to careers in fields like engineering, physical sciences, computing and architecture for more middle and high school students, we are going to have to convince the parents of those students … Continue reading →

Florida’s state government is not going to solve the state’s intensifying teacher shortage – at least not anytime soon. So it’s up to the districts and their leaders to look for new ways to recruit the strong teachers that their … Continue reading →

The President of the National Council for Teacher Quality, Kate Walsh, argued in this morning’s Tallahassee Democrat that Florida should continue to require the state’s General Knowledge teacher certification test for all teaching candidates. I’ve submitted a response to the … Continue reading →