Education & Society

Public libraries need more funding as they are increasingly becoming de facto e-government sites for everything from disaster relief to medical drug plans, according to a new Florida State University study. Government agencies are now referring people to public libraries for access and assistance with online services, a trend that is perceived by many librarians […]

The Program in Higher Education within Florida State University’s College of Education has been rated exemplary in a polling of faculty in the field at more than 100 universities. The study was conducted by Marybelle Keim, a researcher at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. The project is a replication of one she conducted in the early 1980s. […]

Far from being a burden on the educational system, research from Florida State University shows immigrant children perform as well as or better than their same-race, American-born counterparts. FSU Sociology Professor Kathryn Harker Tillman found that first- and second- generation children are no more likely than their third-generation peers to have to repeat a grade […]

Economic freedom has a greater impact than foreign aid in helping people in poor nations escape poverty, according to Florida State University Economics Professor James Gwartney, the co-author of the just-released 10th edition of the Economic Freedom of the World: 2006 Annual Report. This year’s report features new research by economist William Easterly of New […]

So your high school senior says she wants to be a doctor. Great news, right? It is if she’s got the talent and the grades to back up her ambition. Unfortunately, the goals of too many teens now outpace what they are likely to achieve, a problem that can lead to wasted time and resources, […]

Florida State University’s nationally top-10-ranked College of Human Sciences has just begun its second century, and soon it will welcome a new leader as well. FSU Provost and Executive Vice President Lawrence G. Abele has announced the appointment of Billie J. Collier of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville as the college’s dean. Collier will succeed Penny […]

Over the past three years, thousands of American soldiers in Iraq have been horribly injured or killed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The explosives, placed near or buried under roadways and often detonated by remote control, frequently target U.S. military vehicles and convoys—often with deadly success. At Florida State University, one researcher is working on […]

Researchers at Florida State University have submitted findings of a recent yearlong survey of Florida state park visitors to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The study, conducted as part of a contract between the Department of Environmental Protection’s Division of Recreation and Parks and FSU’s Program in Recreation and Leisure Services Administration, assessed visitor […]

The Florida State University College of Education’s higher-education program is ranked 13th among all higher-education administration programs in the nation in U.S. News & World Report‘s 2007 listing of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” “Recognition in such a widely known and used publication is a testament to the quality of the programs in Higher Education,” said […]

It’s been said that nobody graduated from a library, but nobody graduated without one. That’s why Florida State University College of Information Professor Eliza T. Dresang is taking part in an effort to rebuild school libraries devastated by last summer’s hurricanes. As a member of the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries advisory committee, Dresang […]

There is a critical need to define the social communication characteristics of very young children with autism in order to develop early detection and intervention programs A $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders will help Florida State University Professor Amy Wetherby do just that. […]