Skills, not just degree levels, affect graduate wages
- February 15, 2015
- / Rick Harper
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In 2012, State Sen. Don Gaetz passed legislation requiring Florida’s Department of Economic Opportunity to report annually on the wages earned by recent graduates of the many programs offered by our public colleges, universities and technical schools.
Parents find a way to help their children learn
- February 15, 2015
- / Reggle Dongan
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When the state Department of Education released FCAT grades in 1999, the good news was that only two elementary schools received failing scores. The bad news: Both of them — Spencer Bibbs and A.A. Dixon — were in Escambia County.
The miseducation of the FCAT generation
- February 15, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
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Call it the tale of the tape. Or rather the tale of the test. In researching this series of education-themed stories, my colleagues and I have been looking at what 16 years of state standardized testing in Florida has brought schools in Escambia and Santa Rosa schools.
From troubled FCAT to an untested replacement
- February 15, 2015
- / Reggle Dongan
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In 1977, Florida became the first state in the U.S. to use a standardized test for high school graduation. Two decades later, the FCAT was introduced in 1998, the year before Gov. Jeb Bush was elected.