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In September, Alachua County kindergarten teacher Susan Bowles refused to give a state reading test.She told the parents of her students it was an act of…
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Miami Northwestern High School teacher Daniel Dickey says there's no silver bullet or secret book which will spark a student's interest in…
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Miami Northwestern High School English teacher Daniel Dickey has found a way to make his tenth graders brag about their reading skills.Mischael Saint-Sume…
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I finally know my worth as a teacher—and now that the “value-added model” scores mandated by our state legislature are public, everyone else knows, too.…
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Ryan Seashore starts off every CodeNow workshop with a simple request: Write out step-by-step instructions for making a peanut butter and jelly…
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Math is a language. And like any language, teachers need to help students translate the language into terms they understand.“This idea is to learn a…
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Fifty years ago Bob Moses organized volunteers to register voters in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer.And for decades, Moses has been fighting for…
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For the past year the Hechinger Report and StateImpact Florida have taken you into two schools to hear what preparations for Florida’s new Common…
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After a long reign as the fastest-growing and most problematic sector in higher education, for-profit colleges are on the ropes.This week the U.S.…
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Students and civil rights activists are still asking Florida to hold black and Hispanic students to a higher standard. It’s been a little more than a year since the Southern
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More Florida elementary and middle schools earned an F rating this year, according to preliminary public school grades released Friday. But the number of schools earning the state’s highest rating
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Former Florida Education Commissioner Tony Bennett will pay a $5,000 fine as part of a proposed deal with Indiana ethics investigators, according to a…