From Foundation for Florida’s Future – Our state’s transition to the Common Core State Standards will change the expectation of what students need to be learning in Florida classrooms. Standards will be fewer but deeper, and more aligned to what they’ll need for success after high school in our changing world – this brings Full Article
From the Miami Herald – Years of school construction delays. Hundreds of millions in cost overruns. Broken promises. Shoddy construction. Those were the headlines from the last time Miami-Dade voters agreed to pay extra property taxes to fund school construction and renovation. When the measure passed in 1988, the $980 million bond was the Full Article
From Education week – When the student-government president here at City Springs Elementary/Middle School turned into the class clown last school year and began treating teachers disrespectfully, administrators had many options for how to deal with him, including sending him home for a few days to cool his heels. But the “restorative Full Article
From the Miami Herald – When the state grades its teachers, there is no accounting for students’ race or economic status. But now when Florida sets academic performance goals, it will grade itself on a curve, with targets related to race and income. Last week, the state Board of Education approved a new six-year strategic plan Full Article
From The Miami Herald – The State Board of Education voted Tuesday to seek a $643 million, or 4.4 percent, spending increase next year for Florida’s public schools and colleges. The board during its meeting in Orlando also approved other legislative requests and a new five-year strategic plan that envisions minority students narrowing Full Article
From Education Week – Teachers at Orlando Day Nursery in Florida have always evaluated how well their 4-year-old prekindergartners—most of them poor and African-American—could recognize letters, isolate sounds in words, understand stories read to them, and show other hallmarks of early literacy. Just as important, though, have been the Full Article
From NBCmiami – The Dade County Federal Credit Union opened its doors at Booker T. Washington High School Tuesday and put the students in charge. “These students are actually manning the credit union during lunch and after school,” said Principal William Aristide. “They have the opportunity to interact with their schoolmates, parents Full Article
From the Grio – A new study released today shows a little over half of black males graduate from high school in four years; while this rate has improved significantly in the last eleven years, they still fall behind their white counterparts. The Schott Foundation for Public Education released “The Urgency of Now” today, a Full Article
From the Huffington Post – Recently I was “caught” reading at McDonald’s by a group of kids at my school. I say “caught” because many of my peers consider reading to be a lame activity. They think it’s something that only geeks do. Read more here Full Article
From the Grio – Here’s some motivation as students head back to campus this fall. For black students, adding degrees to your resume can also add years to your life. According to a study in the August issue of Health Affairs, black women and men with less than 12 years of education are living ten to Full Article
