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Rising Beyond: UF College of Education Among America’s Top 5 Public Graduate Education Schools

The UF College of Education has climbed to No. 4 among public graduate education schools and No. 6 overall in the 2025 U.S. News & World Report rankings. With top-ranked online programs and nationally recognized specialties, UF continues to shape the future of education through innovation, research and impact.

UF team seeks to double math learning through AI

The ALTER-Math team aims to double math learning progress for middle school students by developing AI-powered teachable agents using large language models (LLMs) through UF’s HiPerGator 3.0.

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UF’s CEEDAR Center secures additional $17.5 million for nationwide effort

With a decade of marked success, this UF-led effort has received an additional $17.5 million to support technical assistance efforts through 2027. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs has already invested $46.5 million in the CEEDAR Center to improve teaching and school leadership for students with disabilities in states across the nation.

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Professor Emeritus Vincent McGuire, proponent of school accountability, dies at 87

Professor Emeritus Vincent McGuire, a long-time member of the COE faculty and outspoken proponent of school accountability, died Sept. 4 in Gainesville. He was 87.

In Norman Hall, McGuire was known as a well-loved professor of English education — a position he held for 38 years — and founder of a novel internship program that used student teaching interns as full-time substitutes in Ke…

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James Wattenbarger, father of Florida’s community college system

When James Wattenbarger started school at Palm Beach Junior College in the 1930s, community and junior colleges were rare institutions, groping for a role in the academic world.

By the time Wattenbarger retired, two-year colleges were within driving distance of everyone in Florida, training thousands of Floridians for jobs and launching countless college careers – and Wattenbarger h…

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Mike Solich, social studies ProTeach student, dies at 22

Mike Solich, a star student in UF’s ProTeach program, died July 6, 2006 in a drowning accident in the Estero River. He was 22.

A native of St. James City, Solich was expected to graduate in August, and had already accepted a position as a social studies teacher at Ida S. Baker High School in Cape Coral.

His professors describe Solich as a passionate idealist who saw the classr…

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Robert Primack, Social Foundations professor, dies at 84

Robert Primack, the mid-life career-changer who went on to become a respected member of COE’s faculty, died Aug. 12 in Gainesville. He was 84.

Students knew Primack as a no-nonsense critic of the educational system who urged future teachers to approach their work as “architects” rather than “carpenters.” Gainesville residents knew him as outspoken critic of c…

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In memoriam: Hal Lewis, longtime UF and P.K. Yonge educator and crusader for school desegregation

Hal G. Lewis Sr., a Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in education at the University of Florida and a crusader for desegregation of Florida schools and college campuses, died at his daughter’s home in Livermore, Cal., on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2005. He was 97.

Lewis, who lived in Gainesville, also was the principal of P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School, the UF College of …

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