…a new study is finding a high correlation between RateMyProfessors and a student evaluation system used nationally.
RateMyProfessors.com might be valid
January 22, 2009Facebook, MySpace posts fair game for colleges
January 19, 2009Students such as (Jennie) Van den Boogaard, one of FLORIDA TODAYs Verge student journalists, are being more cautious about what they post on social networking Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace in fear of giving college advisers or future employers the wrong impression.
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“I think we are definitely cautious of what we put online,” said Kendall Lightly, an 18-year-old senior at Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High School. “I mainly use it to keep in touch with friends who have moved away. If it’s something important, I don’t put it online.”
School board cleared to give back 2 Dec. holidays
November 18, 2008Over Dr. DiPatri’s objection, the Brevard County School Board requested that state officials waive the 180 day rule and allow students and teachers to keep Dec. 22nd and 23rd as holidays, instead of using them as makeup days from Hurricane Fay. The state approved the request, and now all that is left is for the board to approved the plan. If you have an opinion one way or the other, let your school board member know before tonight’s meeting at 5:00 or show up in Viera to speak before the board.
Bright Futures “Robin Hood in reverse”
July 27, 2008Ultimately, they concluded that the program was “tantamount to an income redistribution program from non-white, low-income, uneducated households to white, rich, well-educated households.”
Felony charge doesn’t necessarily keep kids out of schools
July 24, 2008State law says school districts can begin suspension proceedings on a student when a prosecutor officially files a felony charge. At that point, according to state law, a district must prove in an administrative hearing that the nature of the charge could mean a disruption to the “educational program, discipline, or welfare in the school.”
BF book allowance decreased again
July 23, 2008The Bright Futures book allowance is being decreased again for 08-09, from $450 per year to $375 per year.
Roomates in the Facebook generation
July 21, 2008from the Palm Beach Post:
Unlike past generations of freshmen who have anxiously shown up on move-in day with only a name to describe the person who would share their first home away from home, students today connect long before the unpacking begins on social networking Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
McNally turns pro
June 30, 2008Former Cocoa Beach Junior/Senior High and Florida Tech basketball player Carl McNally is extending his career, agreeing to a contract with the Milton Keynes Lions in the British Basketball League, the highest level of pro basketball played in Great Britain.
Congratulations to the man that FIT announcers like to call “The mayor of Cocoa Beach.” We know you will be a great ambassador for us as you travel across the pond, too!
Hall leaves for Satellite
June 28, 2008Coach Michael Hall, who Fl Today earlier reported as Mike Gaudy’s heir apparent, is moving further south down the beach and will be coaching the ladies again.
from floridatoday.com:
For the third time in three years, Satellite High has a new head girls basketball coach — and Michael Hall wants to halt that trend.
AdvertisementHall, 32, has been hired as the Scorpions coach. He replaces Ron Simpkins, who resigned because of family obligations after guiding Satellite to a 17-12 record and a Class 5A regional quarterfinal appearance last season.
A native of Green Bay, Wis., Hall has spent the last three seasons as an assistant with Cocoa Beach Highs boys program.
“Under Mike Gaudy, Cocoa Beachs boys coach, I really learned how to run a program,” Hall said. “My goal now is to bring structure into the Satellite program. I want to build my own program.”
SAT to allow cherry picking of scores
June 21, 2008High school students seeking to put the best shine on their college applications will soon be able to choose which of their SAT scores to share with admissions officers and which to hide, the College Board said Friday.
The new policy, starting with the class of 2010, will allow students to take the widely used college entrance exam multiple times without admissions officers seeing their less-than-stellar efforts. Now, colleges receive scores of all the times a student attempted the dreaded test, whether the results were spectacular, mediocre or worse.
Recall that this will not affect the fact that Florida public colleges and universities still have automatic access to all sittings of all tests you have taken.
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