This would be a worse idea than putting Michael Jackson in charge of the Catholic Church. This would be a bigger waste of time than Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer going out on tour together. This would be ...

Floridians concerned about K-12 education got a sobering, and worrisome, assessment courtesy of a 2009 report from the Florida Reading Council. The study showed that 55 percent of Florida’s college ...

The idea of requiring Florida's public university students to take a standardized test, akin to the FCAT in the public schools, is fantastic. We can call it the UCAT, with the U standing for either ...

In the second report in a series on education, Tom Bearden looks at the standardized tests required for high school graduation in Florida. Instead of going to college this summer, 18-year-old Juan ...

The Seminole High School student who finished 12 t h grade with honor-roll grades but not a diploma is now an official graduate. Jiaqi Chu, who moved to the United States from China five years ago, ...

TALLAHASSEE -- Hundreds, if not thousands, of students will be going to college without having to pass Florida's high-stakes FCAT exam. This was the first year that high school seniors were supposed ...

Registration link to be sent out in January. *Please note that due to capacity, in-person registration is for Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students & guests. The link for the morning Zoom Webinar session ...

CHARLOTTE COUNTY -- Guidance counselors have been tracking down high school seniors who are not graduating this week because they failed the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. They've told them ...

The Thursday editorial on education states that the High School Reform Task Force intends to implement a program that will model high schools after colleges. This is, in theory, a wonderful idea, but ...