Best of the Blogs: Turning Tide

Progress Florida Education Center's Best of the Blogs for the week ending 5-18-12
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center's popular free Daily Clips service.

Student video: How high-stakes tests affect kids
By Valerie Strauss
The Answer Sheet
There is one voice rarely heard in the screaming debate about the role of high-stakes tests in education: that of students.

Southwest Florida: Could The Tide Turn?
By Kartik Krishnaiyer
The Political Hurricane
Christine Jennings learned the hard way what has been ongoing since the early 1970s in southwest Florida.

Can Government Do Anything Right?
By Gimleteye
Eye on Miami
This question, "can government do anything right", is at the heart of polarization between the GOP and Democrats.

Campaign Diaries -- Before You Run
By Kenneth Quinnell
Florida Progressive Coalition
It's kind of important that a candidate for office being thinking about and preparing for a campaign long before they actually jump into a race.

House GOP Votes to Kill Census' American Community Survey
By AnnieJo
Daily Kos
Last Wednesday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives took the budget axe to the American Community Survey (ACS), the Census Bureau's up-to-date annual counterpart to the decennial population counts.