Education Archive

Pensacola State College Visual Arts Instructor Linh O’Briant earned a Merit Award in the 2015 SEGD Global Design Awards program.

Santa Rosa County School District’s Director of Federal Programs, Dr. Karen Barber, served as a distinguished guest speaker at the second annual Discovery Education STEM Leadership Symposium, Oct. 13 in St. Paul, Minn.

The cafeteria at Holley Navarre Intermediate School was buzzing with a little extra excitement because of National School Lunch Week.

Hundreds of students grace the hallways of West Navarre Intermediate School.  And a group of 18 of those students may well be the future journalists of Navarre.  This class, known as iNKSTAND, is reporting the news of WNIS through a digital newsletter under the leadership of teachers Kenny Long and Elizabeth Bauer.

Just-released Math and English/Language Arts scores for Santa Rosa County students in grades 3-10 place them in the top four counties in the state of Florida.

Edward Mansouri believes students don’t learn enough about weather in Florida and the self-proclaimed weather geek has spent the year generating more interest about weather in schools.

Pensacola State College is listed in the Top 100 Associate Degree Producers in the nation for the seventh straight year, according to Community College Week magazine.

Long before military deployments were the norm for families, during an operation called Desert Shield, Operation Desert Friends was taking Navarre’s deployed families by storm. 

Santa Rosa schools will recognize National School Lunch Week from Oct. 12-16 with the theme, “School Lunch Snapshot” to share the best images of today’s school lunches.  The national week is set to recognize the National School Lunch Program and the 30 million children it serves every day nation-wide.

On Sept.1, Education Commissioner Pam Stewart announced that the independent third-party review of the Florida Standards Assessment which was mandated by the Florida Legislature, had confirmed the FSA is valid for group-level use and an accurate way to measure students’ knowledge of the Florida Standards. Since that announcement, some have relied on only portions of the report, failing to provide context or connection to the entire report and its overall conclusions. This has resulted in some incorrect interpretations of the report.