thanks to Michael Berson of the University of Southern Florida for this item:
http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBK5AH201F.html
The spin on Social Studies is interesting; but there’s a lot more emphasis in this article, at least, on education in World Languages – for which the rationale appears to be exclusively commercial.
Monthly Archives: April 2007
“World-class” standards for Florida?
April 27, 2007 – 5:21 pm
“Teaching Geography” Bill
April 27, 2007 – 4:57 pm
The recently submitted “Teaching Geography is Fundamental Act” is featured in a number of Florida papers this week (I don’t know if it’s a syndication pattern, or why not other states). Here’s from the Orlando Sentinel.
Considering Florida, I wonder if they’ll pass a law delaring (as they did with history: see here and here) that [...]
Does chewing gum make students smarter?
April 15, 2007 – 9:29 pm
You can’t make this stuff up.
My soon-to-appear “Education à la Silhouette: The Need for Semiotically-Informed Curriculum Consciousness.” Semiotica 164, no. 1/4 (2007): pp. 235-329.) begins with a brief excerpt from the NBC Today show in which test scores are equated with “smartness” (see below), in a story on “Two recent studies [that] [...]
