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Guest AuthorDecember 14, 2016

Key questions always loom large for parents of homeschooled, college-bound students, such as: “What happens when my child actually gets to the university level? Will they be able to keep up?” As a faculty member, I get the chance to interact with a variety of undergraduates in a number of ways, principally in the classroom […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 26, 2016

A team of scholars from Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Munich recently made a startling discovery: Florida delivers better bang-for-buck in K-12 education than any other state in the nation. And it isn’t even close. This finding is apt to surprise many Floridians who’ve grown accustomed to hearing our state’s education establishment claim that […]

Diane RobertsJanuary 6, 2016

Greeting sportsfans, I’m Brent Toast of ESPN, along with former Heisman winner Johnny Twitt. Welcome to the most important event of 2016, the college football national championship! Who will prevail? Will it be the Clemson University Tigers, led by evangelical whackjob Dabo Swinney, or the Crimson Tide of Alabama, coached by gazillionaire and part-time Bond […]

Diane RobertsJanuary 5, 2016

Greeting sportsfans, I’m Brent Toast of ESPN, along with former Heisman winner Johnny Twitt. Welcome to the most important event of 2016, the college football national championship! Who will prevail? Will it be the Clemson University Tigers, led by evangelical whackjob Dabo Swinney, or the Crimson Tide of Alabama, coached by gazillionaire and part-time Bond […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 4, 2016

Happy New Year to everyone, and welcome back to reading the MPR in 2016. Sunday many of the GOP presidential candidates were on “the shows” as The Donald refers to them, and there were amusing moments throughout the morning. My favorite was perhaps Chris Wallace getting into Chris Christie’s grill regarding how the New Jersey […]

Mitch PerryDecember 31, 2015

Say goodbye to 2015, which will go on record as the hottest year ever on Earth — at least until next year. While Florida continues to bask in unwelcome humidity during this holiday week, Missouri contends with rivers swelling to historic levels, with at least 21 people killed there and in Illinois by a powerful winter storm […]

Mitch PerryNovember 30, 2015

Welcome back to the working world, folks. I hope you all had a glorious Thanksgiving weekend holiday. I enjoyed the time off by seeing some really good films (“Brooklyn” and a very surprisingly good “Creed“), some good football (highlighted by Stanford’s last second victory over Notre Dame, although it’s always nice to see Tom Brady […]

Peter SchorschDecember 16, 2013

Florida State may be ranked No. 1 heading into the bowl championship with Auburn, but there’s one ranking for which the Seminoles trail far behind: the percent of black football players who will graduate from college within six years. The University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Study of Race and Equity analyzed each of the football teams […]

Guest AuthorNovember 11, 2013

The saga involving Miami Dolphins teammates Jonathan Martin and Richie Incognito is a case of hazing, plain and simple. It’s also about bullying and a testosterone-fueled post-pubescent culture of men being boys run amok. For those who might have missed it, Dolphins offensive tackle Martin recently walked away from the team after repeatedly being the […]

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Ali P. Gordon: Homeschooled students bring own skill set to university campuses

William Mattox: Bang-for-buck study should inform Florida’s per-pupil spending debate

Hey, football fans! How’s Donald Trump gonna do?

Diane Roberts: Hey, football fans! How's Donald Trump gonna do?

Mitch Perry Report for 1.4.16 — Welcome back Christie, Carly and the whole gang

Mitch Perry Report for 12.31.15 — Say goodbye to hottest year ever. Until next year.

Mitch Perry Report for 11.30.15 – Accuracy on the campaign trail

Peter Schorsch: FSU must do more to help black football players graduate

Andrew Skerritt: Dolphins mess reveals a culture in need of change