BREAKING: Florida Eliminates Standardized Testing in Schools
Florida schools will start progress monitoring next year.
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Florida schools will start progress monitoring next year.
But it's also something that rattles them up to the polls like mask mandates, vaccine mandates, things around transgender students, what pronouns they should be called, house they should be treated. so it's not an education plan per se in the way of thinking about it as an observer and voter, and apparent. it's not like that. it's more a rally up his supporters in an election that will be overwhelmingly determined by which side gets more of their people out. >> that's not to say it's not an issue, obviously there are parents who care about the staff. but i just want to be clear that it wasn't ...
Lisa, i want to start on sort of a meat and potatoes camping question. i followed this race like many national political observers but i haven't followed it closely, and i'm not a virginian. people talk about youngkin and education is being important, but going through the website today, is there an education proposal, or platform plank that is not about the security stuff? is there some version of george w. bush's big, we will do this this and this, high stakes testing, etc, or is it just under the way of saying the crtc staff? >> it's sort of another way of offering this big rally price for ...
So it is not surprising to see a recently proposed republican bill in the north carolina state house announced that it aims to ensure dignity and non-discrimination in schools while putting strict limits on what schools can teach when it comes to race, including a ban on promoting, quote, the belief that the united states is a meritocracy is inherently racist or sexist or was created by members of a particular race or sex for the purpose of oppressing members of another race or sex. huh, the idea that meritocracy could be elevated to sacrosanct american civics under force of law is just insane...
Kids books of all time, we're going on a bear hunt, which, last time i checked, i think it sold more than 8 million copies. you've had time to reflect on something that you've written about and talked about a lot which is, you feel that the education system is failing to inject enough, sort of, fun and engagement with books amongst today's generation of kids. words and books are your lifeblood and it seems you feel that school is failing to make words and books accessible and fun for kids. why and what can be done about it? well, i think that in this country, particularly in england, that part...