Huff Post Education – Steven Kurlander
“Florida parents and educators got some really bad news recently when the results of the 2012 FCAT writing tests were released by state education officials. The Florida Board of Education flew into crisis management and held an emergency meeting the next day where they unanimously voted to dumb down the FCAT writing threshold to match the results — not last year’s level of 3.5, but incredibly, even lower to 3.0.”(more)