by kaylasharp | Apr 1, 2014 | Headlines, Press Releases
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — School districts and special education interests in five states—Florida, California, Connecticut, Illinois and South Dakota—are partnering with a new, federally funded center at the University of Florida on an ambitious effort to transform...
by kaylasharp | Mar 21, 2014 | Headlines, Insider News, Press Releases, Research News
(Click here for PDF listing of UFCOE presentations) For years, the massive annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association has been a hotbed of the latest research and new ideas about teaching-and-learning practices and policies. This year, nearly 70...
by kaylasharp | Mar 12, 2014 | Headlines, Press Releases
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—The University of Florida Lastinger Center for Learning has received a $250,000 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant to build a teacher-development network as part of its highly successful e-learning resource, Algebra Nation. A virtual home for...
by kaylasharp | Mar 11, 2014 | Headlines, Insider News, Press Releases
The University of Florida College of Education improved nine spots to No. 21 among public education colleges in the 2015 U.S. News and World Report rankings of America’s Best Graduate Schools. The UF college was rated 30th overall, 10 spots higher than last year. U.S....
by kaylasharp | Feb 28, 2014 | Headlines, Insider News, P.K. Yonge, Press Releases
Administrators at P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School may not have known it, but they got more than one person when they hired Michael Cundari to take over the school’s performing arts program last year. Cundari, a Nutley, N.J., native whose list of performances...
by kaylasharp | Feb 11, 2014 | Headlines, Press Releases
Once upon a time, a young black girl with long, curled hair lived at the top of an isolated tower with an enchantress. Her name was Sugar Cane. This Caribbean re-telling of the classic “Rapunzel” fairy tale is just one story featured in “Fairy Tales with a Black...
