Florida could still jump forward on end-of-course exams
The St. Pete Times is reporting that the death of the Florida House bill mandating end-of-course (EOC) exams in high school starting in science is the death of end-of-course exams, at least for this year. I’m not so sure. If I remember correctly, the legislature authorized EOC exams in principle last year, and there is […]
AP feature in St Pete Times
I have microseconds before my day is captured by other things, but this morning’s St. Petersburg Times gave Ron Matus inches and inches of space for his feature on AP classes. Kudos both to Matus for capturing both the promises and risks of expanding advanced-placement classes with a portrait of a student before the exams […]
Charters beat the pants off Florida Virtual School on the disruption scale
Maybe it’s my training as an historian, but book titles such as Disrupting Class bring out my inner Larry Cuban. Disrupting Class author Clay Christensen points out that he tried to respond to Cuban substantively throughout the book, and the Florida Virtual School is a case in point, both for Christensen and also Bill Tucker. […]
No such thing as a “failed search”
I used to hate “student evaluations” as the most ill-used expression in higher ed,* but I have a new pet peeve: “failed search,” as in claims that the “second major search for a dean [of Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism] is on the verge of failure.” Piffle and lizard snot.** There is no such thing […]
The NY Post is shocked, shocked to find that donations are going on in here!
The New York Post is playing to a double standard this week in counting up donations from UFT to state politicians. Not only is there no examination of donations from others (Hi, Mayor Bloomberg and allies!), but one of the UFT’s adversaries in mayoral-control politics is Democrats for Education Reform, which prides itself on getting […]