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• Taking art classes boosts grades, test scores -- a "powerful correlation," DOE says

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 135
  Florida high school students who took art, dance and music classes had higher grade-point averages, graduation rates and FCAT and SAT scores than their classmates who did not, according to a study done by the Florida Department of Education. And...
  2 weeks ago

• FCAT trips up fewer would-be graduates (but maybe because more are using other test scores to earn diploma)

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 135
  This year, 4,768 students did not graduate with standard diplomas solely because they could not pass both the required FCAT exams (in reading and math), state figures show. These students, who met all other graduation requirements, represent about 2.5 percent...
  2 weeks ago

• Can’t pass the FCAT? The state’s about to change the SAT and ACT replacement scores on you

  
  Florida Blog — Authority: 146
  Florida high school seniors who cant earn a passing score on the 10th grade (exit level) Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test have the option of taking the ACT or SAT as an alternative toward their standard diploma. The state sets a "concordant" score thats to be roughly equivalent to the FCAT high level 2 (which, by ...
  3 weeks ago

• Jeb Bushs foundation honors top teachers based on FCAT scores

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 135
  The Foundation for Excellence in Education today announced the winners of its 2009 Excel Award -- which honors instructors whose students made the most progress in reading and math, based on FCAT scores. The winners will be honored at an...
  3 weeks ago

• Fail FCAT and want to substitute SAT or ACT scores? The rules are changing (but just slightly)

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 135
  High school students who failed the FCAT repeatedly and want to substitute SAT or ACT scores (to still earn a regular diploma) will need somewhat higher reading scores on both the national exams to qualify. But they can qualify with...
  3 weeks ago

• End-of-course exams would be better than "exit" exams, advocacy group says

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 135
  As we reported last week, Florida will begin field testing its first two end-of-course exams this spring. These statewide final exams (for now, Florida plans to have four, rolled out in the next few years) could eventually be used in...
  3 weeks ago

• Charlie Crist’s fourth-grade teacher

  
  Florida Blog — Authority: 146
  For nearly three decades, June Clarke — Gov. Charlie Crists fourth-grade teacher — taught in Florida school classrooms, most recently in Palm Beach County. Clarke recently retired unexpectedly , the Palm Beach Post reports, blaming Palm Beach superintendent Art Johnsons new academic program for sucking the joy out ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ed Schools Take the FCAT

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 529
  (Guest post by Greg Forster) Good gravy! Never mind the debate on using test scores to evaluate teachers. Florida is actually using test scores to evaluate teacher colleges : It determined what percentage of graduates from each program had 50 percent or more of their students make a year’s worth of progress ...
  4 weeks ago

• Teacher prep programs judged by student test scores (more info)

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 135
  We reported last week that the state was moving to a system that would judge the performance of teacher preparation programs by looking at how the students of those programs graduates had done on FCAT. The system for judging is...
  4 weeks ago

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