By: Ed is Watching » Bolstering the Case for Jeb Bush’s Florida Education...
[...] a comprehensive article for the Summer 2009 edition of Education Next, Matt Ladner and Dan Lips explain exactly what Florida did to make dramatic gains on 4th grade national test [...]
View ArticleBy: Sonoran Alliance » No more excuses for state of our schools
[...] “Demography as Destiny?” (features, Summer 2009), Matthew Ladner and Dan Lips argue that Florida’s [...]
View ArticleBy: Dan
In comparing AZ with FL,there is only a four point difference. (210 to 214) What is the standard deviation of this test? Next, Florida’s Hispanics are from Cuba. Cuba is a country with an excellent...
View ArticleBy: Matthew Ladner
Dan- Free and reduced lunch eligible Hispanics outscore the statewide average for all students in Arizona. Also, contrary to popular belief, Cubans make up only a minority of Hispanics in Florida....
View ArticleBy: Enemies and the future of American education | The Daily Caller | TheDC.com
[...] Reformers have managed to win some important, albeit modest, victories. Accountability advocates have succeeded in improving public school transparency through state-level testing. School...
View ArticleBy: jj
Looks to me like the trend lines were rising well before the sainted Jeb Bush pushed his “reforms.” I don’t see more than normal fluctuations in a sea of complex data.
View ArticleBy: Florida provides blueprint for boosting minority student achievement -...
[...] leaders in online education. (For a larger discussion on Florida reforms see the article Demography as Destiny in Education Next [...]
View ArticleBy: Florida’s Education Reforms: The Rest of the Story | The Foundry:...
[...] Dr. Chatterji suggests that Florida’s policy barring social promotion of third-graders artificially inflates Florida’s fourth-grade reading scores. Ironically, she criticizes our paper for not...
View ArticleBy: Diane Hanfmann
Walter Haney’s study preceded Dr. Chatterji’s. I now see why Mr. Ladner rarely publishes in open forums. A background in politics differs from a background in educational research. Mr. Ladner lacks the...
View ArticleBy: Floridian
Mr. Ladner was rescently awarded a Bunkum Award by the National Education Policy Center . I believe his particular award was named “The If I say it enough, will it still be untrue” award. Buyers beware.
View ArticleBy: Minnesota Loses School Reform Mantle to Other States | Minnesota Free...
[...] The foundation pushed for many of the the reforms that made it into HF 934.) Florida has made tremendous gains over the years; for example, its fourth-grade Hispanic students now score as well on...
View ArticleBy: Missouri Education Watchdog: Progressive Conservatives and Education Reform
[...] reform programs tried in the different states and find which ones work best. A place to start is Florida which uses a package that includes: school accountability, literacy enhancement, student...
View ArticleBy: Idaho education reform 2012 | Idaho Freedom Foundation
[...] Experts disagree about which reforms caused which results, but school choice is clearly a factor. If Florida parents don’t like the failing grade or anything else about their child’s school, they...
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[...] promotion, in which kids are passed along without mastering grade-level skills. Such improvements, it was noted in 2009, plus efforts to embrace digital learning, helped Hispanic students in...
View ArticleBy: The literacy crisis: Searching for solutions in Mississippi | Mississippi...
[...] 1998 and 2007, the state moved from the fifth-lowest in reading scores for fourth-graders to the eighth-highest, making especially large gains with Hispanic students. Some critics have suggested...
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