Melissa Anne Matz, a seventh grade math teacher at Lakeside Junior High School in Clay County, has been named as a finalist for the 2023 Florida Teacher of the Year award.
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The US Department of State operates the Foreign Service Institute, and if you’ve wondered how long it would require your English-speaking self to achieve proficiency to speak and read a new language, the map above shows the different time frames.
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University of South Florida pure mathematics and microbiology student Alexander Mercier is the university’s first Rhodes Scholarship finalist.
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USF students create device to help ventilator shortages, nationally recognized
USF biomedical engineering graduates are receiving national recognition for a prototype device designed to help the critical shortage of ventilators in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Children’s academic success shouldn’t be predetermined by their zip codes, and parents shouldn’t have to worry that where they live will limit their children’s educational opportunities.
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Most adults don’t have the academic aptitude of 12-year-old Caleb Anderson.
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In just over a month, more than 1,400 Florida State students and 26 staff members have tested positive for Coronavirus.
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If there’s anything that 2020 has taught college students, it is how to take advantage of life’s little things.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education estimates 5 million students will be in-person at colleges this fall.
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Public schools nationwide have closed for the rest of the year, prompting students to transition to online classes and parents to step in as homeschool teachers.
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The University of South Florida’s Patel College of Global Sustainability released a new study on Feb. 20, 2020, showing that Florida’s Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs are booming and producing significant economic and environmental benefits for the state.
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Any day now, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ new Title IX regulations will be published. Title IX is a federal law that prohibits discrimination and harassment in education on the basis of sex in any educational programs or activities that receive federal funding.
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Baptist Medical Center Nassau is marking its fifth year in the nationally recognized Tipping the Scale youth mentoring and summer employment program.
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Florida has two universities in the top 25 best colleges ranking according to the 2020 list by U.S. News & World Report.
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Summer is in full swing, and if you have a high school student interested in higher education, now is a great time to start planning.
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Did you know? Florida is the only state that has two rivers with the same name – Withlacoochee in north central Florida (Madison County) and Withlacoochee in central Florida.