by kaylasharp | Oct 7, 2013 | Headlines, Press Releases, Research News
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In a multi-center study, Florida and Illinois researchers are testing a promising approach to help parents and caregivers of infants and toddlers with disabilities advance their child’s learning through everyday activities and routines. The...
by kaylasharp | Aug 23, 2013 | Headlines, Press Releases, Research News
As researchers across the country continue the search for early indicators of academic failure and dropouts, University of Florida education researchers are paying particularly close attention to warning signs predicting reading test scores. Eric Thompson, a summer...
by kaylasharp | Apr 18, 2013 | Newsmakers, Research News, Student Laurels
Julie Brown, a UF doctoral fellow in curriculum and instruction, has been named as one of six Jhumki Basu Scholars by the National Association for Research in Science Teaching’s Equity and Ethics Committee. Brown is a former high school science teacher and P.K. Yonge...
by kaylasharp | Feb 18, 2013 | Headlines, Insider News, P.K. Yonge, Press Releases, Research News
Bolstered by a $5 million grant last year from the National Science Foundation, a collaborating faculty research team from P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School and UF’s College of Education has been studying how to transform middle school science curricula and...
by kaylasharp | Jan 28, 2013 | Press Releases, Research News
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Some experts are challenging the widespread notion of an overall worker shortage in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math, but the paucity of schoolteachers in those vital subject areas is well documented. That’s why...
by kaylasharp | Jan 16, 2013 | Press Releases, Research News
For more than 45 years, Colombia has been barraged by a civil war that has resulted in significant violations of human rights. Now, amid the recent decline of overt war in the South American country, the University of Florida’s College of Education, Levin College of...
