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The list was compiled after a ten-week listening tour with students, teachers and parents across the state.
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FIUTeach at Florida International University aims to reduce the shortage of math and science teachers in Miami-Dade County and beyond — while ensuring educators are subject matter experts. WLRN goes into one of South Florida's oldest high schools to see how the program is working.
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The Manatee County school district partners with USF to offer intensive experiences in classrooms for education undergraduates — and it is one of the few programs in Florida to pay interns. The aim is to entice, prepare and inspire new teachers, in the hope they will also stay to teach locally upon graduation.
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Florida universities and school districts are incentivizing college students to become teachers in the highest-need areas. In the WLRN series Role Call, we found these programs are "moving the needle, but only a very, very small amount."
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Florida teachers are leaving the state and their profession. They blame unrealistic workloads, restrictive laws and stagnant pay.
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Viral TikToker and elementary school teacher Natalie Stuart joins host Carlos Frías to share how she uses dance and social media to connect to her students.
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Teachers face pressure from COVID, politicians, and parents. What’s it like being a teacher today?
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Boodnaraine Tihal has been a teacher for 50 years. He started when he was just 18 years-old, in his home country of Guyana. He also taught in the Bahamas,…
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In September, Alachua County kindergarten teacher Susan Bowles refused to give a state reading test.She told the parents of her students it was an act of…
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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
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Thousands of Miami-Dade teachers will cast ballots Oct. 30 in a ratification vote on a tentative contract agreement hashed out this month between district…
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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