Community colleges have become the new policy darlings over the last year-plus. Their lower price tag makes them an attractive place to begin a postsecondary education before transferring to a more expensive four-year school, while curricula that are more focused on local vocational needs increases their popularity as a place to get new or updated [...]
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Governor Crist: Don’t Sign That Bill
Gary Fineout, in the Miami Herald, writes about the virtual education bill that is now on Florida Governor Charlie Crist’s desk. Florida is not only the fourth largest state, but also a trendsetter for virtual education. Unfortunately for both the state and virtual education in general, this bill takes the state in the wrong direction. [...]
Remind Me Not To Raise My Kids in Tampa Bay
Via Sherman Dorn, a Florida state senate committee has approved a bill that would give high school biology teachers the “academic freedom” to teach whatever non-scientific theories they please–Zoroastrian creation myths, anything–adding to existing Florida statute instructing history teachers that “American history shall be viewed as factual, not as constructed, shall be viewed as knowable, [...]
Preschool in the Primaries: Score one for Senator Clinton
Campaigning in Florida today, Senator/Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton put forward an ambitious policy proposal to move the U.S. towards universal preschool education. This is the first major education proposal rolled out by the Clinton campaign, and it’s a good one. The plan would provide states with matching grants (starting at $5 billion federal investment and [...]
Men in the Classroom
Via the EdWonks, an interesting story about efforts in Florida to recruit more black male teachers. Both men and people of color are underrepresented in teaching, and the numbers from Florida presented in this article are truly astounding–it says the state’s teacher preparation programs produced only 61 black male teachers last year!
There are real reasons [...]
Rigor, Relevance Reconciled?
In article about a legislative proposal in Florida to require high school students to declare a major, Governor Jeb Bush says:
“We don’t want them to drop out of school or be unprepared to take on the challenges of the 21st century. It’s a really smart way to make high school more relevant and prepare young [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/11/10 | Kevin Carey is quoted on the rising costs of education in The Economist.
03/10/10 | Chad Aldeman Aldeman's False Fronts is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on loan origination on the Firedog Lake blog.
03/07/10 | Kevin Carey calls for a Race to the Top in higher education in a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
03/08/10 | Andrew Rotherham's Eduwonk post on RTT finalists is quoted on Class Struggle.
03/07/10 | Andrew Rotherham is quoted on the success of MATCH in The Times-Picayune.
03/06/10 | Eduwonk's reaction to Ohio's status as a RTT finalist is cited in a Wall Street Journal editorial.
03/05/10 | Andrew Rotherham's reaction to New York's status as a Race to the Top finalist is cited on National Journal.