Monthly Archives: April 2023

Today’s Perspective section in the Tampa Bay Times could have been titled “Preparing young people for their economic and emotional futures in a time of rapid technological change”. On the cover page, above the fold, the Manhattan Institute’s Allison Schrager … Continue reading →

As a physics professor at Florida State University, I rely on my graduate teaching assistants to build a positive environment in my classroom, which is populated by students majoring in engineering, meteorology, chemistry, computer science, physics and other math-intensive STEM … Continue reading →

Lots of Florida high school students are taking advantage of dual enrollment to get a head start on the writing courses that Florida’s public colleges and universities require. In the fall of 2022, 18,721 students were taking the first semester … Continue reading →

Florida has five school districts with more than 150,000 students – Broward, Miami-Dade, Hillsborough, Orange and Palm Beach. In all five districts – Florida’s megadistricts – about half of the students are classified by the Florida Department of Education as … Continue reading →

Florida public high school students from disadvantaged backgrounds are, on the average, less prepared to succeed in bachelor’s degree programs in STEM fields than their more affluent classmates. On this, everybody agrees. Where the disagreement begins is whether there is … Continue reading →

The Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) classifies 52.2% of the state’s public K-12 students as “economically disadvantaged”. Yet according to the FLDOE only 24.0% of students taking AP Calculus AB in the state’s public high schools are economically disadvantaged. The … Continue reading →