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Peter SchorschOctober 3, 2023

'The strategies we outline in the report focus on how to leverage students' assets and build learning environments that not only improve student achievement, but also foster students' growth and development to reduce achievement gaps.'

Anne GeggisMay 11, 2022

Florida was the first state to reopen schools after the pandemic hit.

Renzo DowneyJune 11, 2020

Florida received $2 billion to support education.

Janelle Irwin TaylorNovember 13, 2018

The University of South Florida is joining a national effort to increase college access and boodt by hundreds of thousands the numbers of degrees awarded by the year 2025. USF will be part of a group of 130 public universities working together to close the achievement gap between minority, low-income students and their non-minority peers. […]

Peter SchorschMarch 27, 2014

Every day in eighth grade, a special-ed teacher would come into our language arts classroom and pull two students out for what I assume was remedial English training. Despite being fluent in English and two of the smartest kids I knew, these friends weren’t expected to get what they needed from a mainstream classroom or […]

Tag: achievement gap

Research shows ‘significant’ gender achievement gaps for boys, but there’s hope to close it

National study singles out Florida schools for bucking COVID-19 academic losses

August reopening: Ron DeSantis details CARES Act education expenditures

USF joins national coalition to boost student graduation

Peter Schorsch: Florida schools have closed Hispanic achievement gap