July 25th, 2011 by Matthew Kethel | Tags: Education, Online Education
Here’s a copy of the PowerPoint presentation that my colleague Eric Brooks and I delivered on U.S. News‘s upcoming online education project. Also, WCET plans to archive the entire webcast soon. Highlights of the webcast include: U.S. News stressed that at this point in time there is not a pre-determined methodology for doing the online [...]
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May 18th, 2011 by Imogen Radcliffe | Tags: Education, Education Reform
I enjoy reading the American Enterprise Institutes Rick Hess on education issues, not mainly because we tend to agree more often than not. Rather, I appreciate his challenging insights that so often lie outside conventional wisdom and/or ahead of the curve. One of his latest blog pieces Common Core: Giving Happy Lie to the Reform [...]
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August 5th, 2010 by Milla Rodgers | Tags: Education, School Grades
The Collier and Lee County School Districts continue to perform at the top of the class. Both districts received an A grade from the Florida Department of Education, according to school grades released for elementary and middle schools Friday. High school grades are still pending, as the state decided last fall to change the way [...]
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