Does 416 have southern or northern exposure??
Yes, folks, it’s the time when having been incredibly inefficient/distracted thus far this week, I finally have cleared enough from my plate to focus on organizing my summer class. I have been pondering bits and pieces of critical stuff for a few weeks, and it’s time to crack down and finish updating the syllabus. This […]
Does Duncan need a program-closing commission?
The recommended chopping of a dozen programs and half a billion dollars from the Obama recommended budget, and the expected political defense of those programs, reminds me of the various efforts to eliminate programs in the Pentagon that have developed political roots. A few weeks ago, I was wondering if the Pentagon needed a weapons-program-closing […]
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. […]