Last spring, Florida lawmakers sought to ease the pressure the FCAT applied on public high schools by developing a more rounded appraisal of student performance. ...more

December 28, 2008

Last spring, Florida lawmakers sought to ease the pressure the FCAT applied on public high schools by developing a more rounded appraisal of student performance. ...more

December 27, 2008

Many Just Don't Care Regarding "3 Area Schools Targeted For Closing" (front page, July 30): ...more

August 8, 2008

Regarding "3 Area Schools Targeted For Closing" (front page, July 30): Closing three "failing" schools is a bit like one ancient culture's practice of whipping a certain large stone in the village center whenever there was a crop failure. ...more

July 31, 2008

Alonso, Hillsborough, Newsome, Riverview, Plant, Bloomingdale, Sickles, Tampa Bay Technical, Freedom and Gaither. Only three high schools got A grades in 2007. Of all Hillsborough schools, 143 got A's or B's in the report, up from 137 last year. Here are excerpts from user posts. ...more

July 16, 2008

Last week's report card for Florida schools showed that there were two failing schools in Hillsborough County - neither of which were in South Shore. ...more

July 16, 2008

It has been a decade since Florida started the controversial practice of grading schools and Tuesday's release of school grades from the Florida Department of Education added a celebratory note to the milestone. The results indicate that school accountability is doing just what it was intended to do: revealing what progress is - and is not occurring - in our schools. ...more

July 9, 2008

Florida officials raved about the state's school report card released Tuesday, with a record number of A's and B's and fewer failures. ...more

July 9, 2008

TAMPA – Florida's school report card was released today, and Hillsborough County ended up with two failing schools -- Broward and Sulphur Springs elementaries -- compared with five in 2007 ...more

July 8, 2008

James R. Flynn, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Otaga in New Zealand, discovered two decades ago that IQ test scores were steadily rising in the developed world despite some evidence to the contrary, such as failing schools and stagnant standardized test scores - a phenomenon called the 'Flynn effect.' ...more

October 28, 2007