Jeb Bush's Florida Model and Florida "leaders" have produced America's worst state education system for generation. Weaponize that fact, politically, relentlessly, to change it.
Billy, can you share where those NAEP growth per grade calculations are from? On the NAEP website, it shows Florida as about average in 8th grade reading in 2009, and about average in 8th grade reading in 2015. If Floridian children are only making .7 grades' worth of growth per year, you would think that by 8th grade they would be we behind the rest of the country.... How would you account for the fact that we aren't? Is it mainly an artifact of mass retention in third grade, so most of our students are taking an extra year to get to 8th grade? (A quick Google search of 'Florida third grade retention rate' didn't give me anything to indicate if that rate is large enough to have this much of an effect).
Billy, can you share where those NAEP growth per grade calculations are from? On the NAEP website, it shows Florida as about average in 8th grade reading in 2009, and about average in 8th grade reading in 2015. If Floridian children are only making .7 grades' worth of growth per year, you would think that by 8th grade they would be we behind the rest of the country.... How would you account for the fact that we aren't? Is it mainly an artifact of mass retention in third grade, so most of our students are taking an extra year to get to 8th grade? (A quick Google search of 'Florida third grade retention rate' didn't give me anything to indicate if that rate is large enough to have this much of an effect).