Education & Society

Knock, knock! Who’s there? Cows go. Cows go who? No, cows go moo! OK, OK. So it’s not a side-slapper — especially if the teller has zero sense of comic timing. But most likely the person sharing the joke over the water cooler thinks he or she is pretty funny. No matter how badly the […]

The Florida State University College of Social Work has concluded its first two-week summer camp for middle-school children that served as the pilot project for CSW Arts & Athletics, a new program focusing on positive youth development. The program brought together 20 young people from June 18-29 for the opportunity to benefit from arts, athletics […]

One of the nation’s foremost experts on the politics and policies of educational reform has received an honor befitting her status. Carolyn Herrington, a professor of educational policy in Florida State University’s College of Education, has been named co-editor of the scholarly journal Educational Researcher for the 2013-2015 volume years. The journal is considered the […]

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Florida State University (OLLI at FSU) — a scholarly and engaging program of classes and programs targeted to people over 50 who want to enhance their education in a stress-free environment — has been awarded a highly competitive $1 million endowment from the Bernard Osher Foundation. “OLLI at FSU’s […]

When a beginning reader reads aloud, her progress is apparent: Hunched over a book, little index finger blazing the way, she moves intently from sound to sound, word to word. I do not like green eggs and ham! I do not like them, Sam-I-am! But when that same child reads silently, it’s much harder to […]

The Florida State University FSU-Teach program — which trains math and science majors to become much-needed math and science classroom teachers — has received a $100,000 share of a $500,000 donation from AT&T to the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI). Florida State is one of five universities among which the AT&T contribution to NMSI […]

U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Steven Ratti, the United States Southern Command’s director of plans and operations and a Florida State University alumnus, will discuss security and humanitarian issues within the Caribbean, Central and South America, as well as the situation in Haiti two years after its devastating earthquake, at Florida State University on Monday, […]

For the increasing number of “high-risk” families in Florida facing the complex challenges of infants and toddlers with disabilities and developmental delays, additional help is on the way. Two Florida State University professors have received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to train more educators in specialized early intervention and support. […]