Venting My Cynicism

So I finally found an article linking to that old statement I made that teachers make very little impact on test scores (~10%).  The Atlanti...

Florida continues to dump a grossly disproportionate amount of capital funding into charters; 50% last year, and possibly an even greater am...

We're now in year three of Marzano's "causal" model here in Florida.   With all these effect sizes (where increases of 10-...

My "Insanity" post re: the Marzano evaluation system seems to be the only "popular" post I have so I thought it might b...

One hypothesis is that Jeb Bush's A-F system is a simple and easy to understand method with easy to interpret results.  But this is Fl...

 *  Note:  I changed the title to be more clear.  There is no one simple reason for how we got where we are. While I can't stand the a...