PROJECT: Trying to Find Y
Parents, Teachers, Students: We need your help! We have significant concerns regarding Florida’s current advanced math sequence and…
FSA Technical Report: Looking For What Isn’t There
“Looking For What Isn’t There,” the Brief Version: Almost since the day the Department of Education signed the…
ICYMI: The Florida Charter Study is Baloney
This post has been modified to included more specific information regarding Dr. Jay Greene’s testimony during the Citizens…
Funding & Other Baloney Part II: How You Spend It Matters A Lot
In Part I of this series, we questioned whether Florida’s embarrassingly low per pupil spending, in the face…
Funding & Other Baloney, Part I: 4th Grade Reading Scores and “Efficiency”
I will venture a guess that no one truly believes the measure of a high quality education system should…
Teaching to the Test: When is Enough Actually Enough?
On March 15, 2016, my Monroe County School Board got into a discussion regarding whether the district was…
Florida’s Testing Obsession: Threats, Lies, and the Emotional Toll.
The end of March put testing season in Florida into full swing and that means Stress with a…
Florida, 3rd Grade Retention and Transparency: Clear as Mud
It’s difficult to be transparent when you don’t really want people to understand the law; especially the law…
Accountabaloney On Trial: Day One
Today, broadcast live on The Florida Channel, Accountabaloney went on trial. For Florida’s public school advocates, and perhaps…
Student Achievement and FSA Validity: More Accountabaloney
A test is only valid if the results are used in a valid way. If a test’s results…
Vaccines, FSA, Santa Claus and a side of Baloney
On 2/29/16, the Tampa Bay Times reported Florida Education Commissioner, Pam Stewart, in a conference call with superintendents, stated her…
2016 FSA Administration: Ready or Not, Here it Comes
On February 25, 2016, my son’s 3rd grade Florida State Assessment (FSA) score report was delivered to his…
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