Race to the Top winners and losers
So officially, Delaware and Tennessee won (note, Andy Smarick: I spelled both states and your name correctly). But in the side competition (including brackets and sidebar bets), who won and lost? Those who predicted political decision-making were wrong. I know Mike Petrilli has wondered if politics has intervened in the reviewing process (and thought the […]
In #1b1t lies a proof of concept for microblogging for group annotation
Wired.com writer Jeff Howe has proposed a giant Twitter-wide reading experiment he’s calling One Book, One Twitter, where everyone on Twitter (or a great big gob of people) read and tweet about the passages they’re currently on. The topics code #1b1t (an example of a “hashtag”) is Howe’s proposal, and you can follow the latest […]
Florida House committee chair calls security?
Wow: Florida House PreK-12 policy committee chair Rep. Anitere Flores apparently threatened to call in security when a Democratic representative complained that his amendments were not being heard or voted on, and at the end of the committee a group of Capitol security guards stood at the front of the room, between the audience/witnesses and […]
In better news, bipartisan bill passes Florida Senate reforming high school testing
In addition to Senate Bill 6, the Senate also passed an amended form of Senate Bill 4, which moves the state’s high school testing program away from comprehensive exams in 10th and 11th grade and towards end-of-course (EOC) exams. Senators from both parties finally “get it” that the so-called comprehensive science exam was counterproductive, and […]
Florida Senate overreaches on changes to regulation of teaching
Yesterday, the Florida Senate voted for Senate Bill 6, which would dramatically change the structure of teacher evaluation, contracts, pay, and licensure in the state. A few amendments were approved on the floor of the senate, but only three appear substantive, and the largest changes happened in committee, in part to address concerns about constitutionality for the initial bill. […]