Academics
As of 2008, the school has a "A" on the Florida School Accountability Grading Scale. It is ranked 79th among the 1300 high schools in Newsweek's Top Public High School list, a list based on a "Challenge Index" derived for the magazine, which takes the total number of AP, IB or Cambridge tests given at a school in May, and divides it by the number of seniors graduating in May or June. The top 100 ranking was achieved after Newsweek's initial ranking for Fletcher was appealed by the principal.
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“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
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