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FCAT

The Basic Issue

The Basic Arguments

Links

• Department of Education FCAT page
• View FCAT exams online

Media Coverage

• 3.10.08: St. Petersburg Times, 10 years of FCAT angst
• 12.11.07: Palm Beach Post, State places too much weight on FCAT, report suggests
• 12.11.07: Palm Beach Post, Study gives FCAT mixed assessment
• 12.11.07: Orlando Sentinel, Experts' report: 3rd-grade FCAT for reading in 2006 flawed
• 11.21.07: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Studies offer lessons from five years of FCATs
• 11.11.07: Orlando Sentinel, Bipartisanship shows on education issues
• 11.8.07: Fort Myers News-Press, FCAT is a farce, lawmaker tells education head
• 8.4.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Democratic candidates tap into voter frustration on FCAT, education reform.
• 7.19.06: St. Petersburg Times, Gov. Bush, FCAT hang over race.
• 7.10.06: Miami Herald, Premature call to monitor schools.
• 7.2.06: Associated Press, Cocoa High School administrators disciplined in FCAT probe.
• 6.28.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Grades explained by curved system.
• 6.20.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Standardized tests put students with learning disabilities under pressure.
• 6.19.06: Miami Herald, Candidates for governor eye FCAT changes.
• 6.18.06: St. Petersburg Times, Competing standards.
• 6.17.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, State's grading curve helped schools score A.
• 6.17.06: Associated Press, 2 state senators want Winn fired over FCAT graders.
• 6.16.06: Palm Beach Post, School grades political; students' grades matter.
• 6.16.06: Southwest Florida Herald Tribune, Who grades the graders?
• 6.16.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, State didn't verify degrees of dozens of FCAT graders from foreign universities.
• 6.16.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 50 percent of Broward schools failed under U.S. standards.
• 6.15.06: St. Petersburg Times, 'Less than satisfactory'.
• 6.14.06: Palm Beach Post, Hooray for FCAT politics.
• 6.14.06: Orlando Sentinel, FCAT scoring is accurate, governor insists.
• 6.14.06: Tallahassee Democrat, Accountability? FCAT flap doesn't inspire confidence.
• 6.13.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Florida education chief says FCAT graders will need to have experience in subjects.
• 6.12.06: Orlando Sentinel, Review of FCAT graders raises new questions on qualifications.
• 6.11.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Many hired to grade FCAT lack credentials, review finds.
• 6.11.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Standardized testing puts students with learning disabilities under increased pressure.
• 6.5.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Poor FCAT reading scores for 10th-graders confound teachers.
• 6.4.06: Palm Beach Post, As 10th-grade scores lag, sophomores wail: Reading makes 'em weep.
• 6.4.06: Daytona Beach News-Journal, Bridging the achievement gap.
• 5.28.06: Orlando Sentinel, Grade 4 FCAT results a puzzle.
• 5.28.06: St. Petersburg Times, Grade 10 reading scores still poor.
• 5.26.06: Palm Beach Post, Solve FCAT mystery of 10th-graders' scores.
• 5.25.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, FCAT science results disappoint in Broward as only one-third make the grade.
• 5.25.06: Orlando Sentinel, FCAT, national test show state's students struggle with science.
• 5.25.06: Tampa Tribune, Charting FCAT Scores Masks Continuing School Shortfalls.
• 5.24.06: Tallahassee Democrat, FCAT scores are up, Bush says.
• 4.16.06: Orlando Sentinel, FCAT graders' names, abilities a 'trade secret'.

Blogs

• 11.26.08: FLA Politics, The FCAT Is A Weapon
• 6.10.08: Florida Citizens for Science, 2008 science FCAT scores
• 1.30.08: Florida Citizens for Science, Dropping the curriculum for FCAT
• 12.21.07: Central Florida Political Pulse, FCAT Ripe For Change, Poll Shows
• 11.15.07: The Buzz, Beginning of FCAT's end?; Gelber's secret
• 11.11.07: Sound Off & Be Heard, FCAT overhaul? Long overdue (blog of Hillsborough School Board Member April Griffin)
• 11.11.07: Central Florida Political Pulse, Class-size, FCAT facing more changes?
• 8.24.07: Blast Off!, FCAT: the "F" isn't really for "Florida"
• 5.30.07: The Buzz, Democrats urge Crist to audit FCAT.
• 5.24.07: The Buzz, FCAT fiasco: scores wrong.
• 6.23.06: FLA Politics, Unraveling the FCAT and Education in Florida.
• 6.19.06: Daily Kos, Failing Children, Accountability and Testing (FCAT).
• 6.15.06: FLA Politics, How Convenient.
• 6.12.06: FLA Politics, "Senatus Universitatis Xavierianae."
• 5.28.06: Florida Rants, No Mystery Here: The Answer is Simple.
• 5.24.06: Florida Rants, FCAT Behind the Numbers.
• 4.27.06: Pushing Rope, The Facts On the FCAT
• 3.27.06: IndependentReport, Test preparation software provided by Neil Bush's Ignite!

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