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Home health aides, medical assistants and other workers with less than a four-year college degree account for nearly half of the health care workforce in Florida and across the country, a new Brookings Institute analysis reports. Credit Wikimedia Commons Between 2009 and 2011, a total of 3.8 million people in 10 different “pre-baccalaureate” fields worked…
DetailsThe tens of thousands of immigrant children crossing the U.S. border — many from Central America — could mean less federal money for education, Clare McCann at the New America Foundation warns. Federal spending rules could mean every dollar increase for immigration services is a dollar cut from education. Miami-Dade schools expect a surge in…
DetailsThe old-fashioned way may be the best way when it comes to teaching math. A new study finds struggling students learned more with much-maligned “drill and kill” techniques to teach basic math concepts. Some parents and critics have complained that Common Core standards encourage schools to put less emphasis on drill-based math instruction. To help…
DetailsWhile kids are (possibly) doing summer reading, some activists are working hard to flunk the Common Core. Four years ago, when 44 states had adopted the K-12 curriculum standards, the whole thing seemed quiet and inevitable. Today, resistance is everywhere: from teachers and parents who chafe over testing requirements to Tea Party types who see…
DetailsThe state teachers union filed a legal challenge to a controversial education bill Wednesday, saying it violates the constitutional requirement that legislative proposals be limited to a single subject. The bill, SB 850, was signed into law last month. Among other things, it expands the state school voucher program and creates new scholarships for children…
DetailsTALLAHASSEE – Florida’s teacher union sued Wednesday to block legislation passed last spring that expands the state’s corporate school-voucher program. The law, called the Career and Professional Education Act, or SB 850, started as an act to expand Florida’s collegiate high school program. But it morphed on the last day of the 60-day session with…
DetailsFlorida’s teachers union announced a lawsuit Wednesday aiming to block a new law that, among other things, expands eligibility for tax credit scholarships and creates the second-in-the-nation personal learning scholarship accounts program. The suit doesn’t argue the programs themselves are unconstitutional. Like a recent challenge of Alabama’s tax credit scholarship program, it focuses on how…
DetailsManatee County schools are holding summer sessions to train teachers how to set goals — and then use classroom data to meet those targets. On Monday, the district began the first of eight two-day data team training sessions to help school administrators and teachers use and analyze data to make smarter classroom decisions. About 36…
DetailsBlame science – and not your teenager – if they’re slow starters in the morning. Teenagers just can’t get eight hours of sleep if high schools starts much before 8 a.m. University of Minnesota researcher Kyla Wahlstrom said that’s because adolescents go through something called the sleep phase shift. “Teenagers are basically unable to fall asleep…
DetailsU.S. students’ understanding of personal finance might be average when compared with their peers overseas, as results from an international test showed last week, but some states and nonprofits are aiming to strengthen the teaching of financial in American schools. Last month, the state board of education in Florida adopted a financial-literacy strand to its…
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