Grade Recovery is Slacker Recovery

This is a continuation of my last post about grade recovery, which is located here.  You may recall a much earlier post that I wrote concerning Christopher Harvey, a former teacher of the year here in Jacksonville. He thinks that grade recovery is a big mistake.  He says the majority of the students taking grade […]

More Observations from a Retired Teacher

This post is the conclusion of an editorial piece that appeared recently in the Florida Times-Union. If you haven’t had a chance to read that post, it is located here. Lois Floyd continues, “Busing students from failing schools to other schools compounds problems in the schools. When you bus about 300 students across town to […]