A petition to change the name of Jacksonville’s Nathan B. Forrest High School—whose namesake was the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan—has reached…

Florida’s legislative session is months away, but educators and politicians are already talking about making early childhood education a priority. “Early childhood is viewed as childcare, and not early childhood

College students trying to decide which major and minor to choose have something else to add to the list — meta-majors. The same law which (mostly) eliminates remedial courses at

The average adviser at Hillsborough Community College is responsible for 1,500 students. Thanks to a new law eliminating most remedial reading, writing and math courses at Florida community colleges, those

Many students who enroll in Florida community colleges will no longer have to take remedial reading, writing and math courses starting this spring. That’s because Florida lawmakers approved a law

Khadejah Gilbert found out she wasn’t quite ready for higher education when she enrolled in Hillsborough Community College. She's one of many students who

In all the attention surrounding the Common Core hearings Florida is holding this week, it would have been easy to miss a curious exchange at Tuesday’s…

Florida is on a shrinking list of states that still allow corporal punishment in schools.Education Week’s Alyssa Morones looked at how states are…

Florida is one of 36 states which scored higher than the international average score on a math test and one of 47 states which beat the international average score in

The federal government is pushing states to consider adopting a common definition for which students qualify as English language learners, Stateline reports. The decision is important because it could affect

One of the big complaints critics have of Florida’s new math, English and literacy standards — known as Common Core — is that the standards haven’t been field tested to

Editor’s note: This post was authored by Sarah Carr and Sarah Butrymowicz for The Hechinger Report. MIAMI—The pushback against the testing component of Common Core here has endangered political support