SAVE THE DATES: March 23-31. That’s when the Performing Arts Center at P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School will be presenting the musical, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” Spelling Bee features another super-talented cast of [...]
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UF-PKY alumna, 90, still has plenty to teach children—through poetry
UF education alumna Margaret Rosenberger (BAE ’49, MEd ’52), a fifth-generation Florida native and a 1939 graduate of P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School, has been writing poetry since she was 10. Now, at 90, she is looking to publish her latest [...]
Memory of brothers killed in car crash lives on with mother’s gift to UF
GAINESVILLE, FL — In August of 2006, UF’s College of Education lost two of its most involved and beloved graduate students, but their memory lives on in a scholarship created by donations from their mother, friends, faculty and fellow students. [...]
Lastinger Center featured in booklet on UF’s impact in Miami-Dade
UF’s Lastinger Center for Learning, the College of Education’s statewide teaching- and school-improvement program, is featured in the South Florida edition of “UF in Your Neighborhood,” a new booklet produced by the University of Florida Foundation. The foundation recently published [...]
UF education, medical colleges team up on new master’s degree to help doctors become better teachers
The University of Florida colleges of Education and Medicine have joined forces to offer a new master’s degree program geared toward not only helping physicians be better teachers, but also training them to be scholars in the field. The online [...]
Professor emeritus pens new book: ‘Why Korean Education is Leaving America in the DUST’
During his 44-year education career, William Hedges, a retired professor emeritus at UF’s College of Education, alternated public school teaching with university teaching in order to “stay in the real world.” A former Fulbright Scholar, he didn’t like what he [...]
COE celebrates different cultures on International Education Day
About 50 students and faculty members gathered Nov. 17 to celebrate global EduGators on International Education Day. The festivities were part of International Education Week, a worldwide celebration of international education and exchange. More than 100 international students from 35 [...]
International Education Week events planned
Wednesday Nov. 16 2 p.m., Reitz Union Rm. 282 Panel Discussion: “International Engagement & Career Growth” Four internationally engaged College of Education Faculty–including two Fulbright Scholars–will share their motivations while adding international components to their work, and will reflect on [...]
COE student groups collect goods for local schoolchildren
The UF Alliance partnered with the COE’s Education College Council and UF’s student chapter of the Florida Education Association this week to fill two vans with donated clothing, shoes, school supplies and personal hygiene items for children in need. COE [...]
