Which Highlands County school started with two buildings constructed in 1961 that housed eight classrooms and now has a campus with 12 permanent buildings and 39 classrooms? ...more

October 29, 2009

With U.S. students lagging behind their counterparts in some countries, local educators are turning to Singapore to shake up math curriculums. ...more

October 26, 2009

With U.S. students lagging behind their counterparts in some countries, local educators are turning to Singapore to shake up their math curricula. ...more

October 25, 2009

Grandchildren are the elixir of life. Their voices on the phone and their e-mail messages are magical, transforming a rainy day into one of glorious sunshine. ...more

March 11, 2009

Here's the scenario: It's Friday night, and what began as an innocent happy-hour margarita morphed into a few pitchers. After all, those tacos were salty. ...more

October 8, 2008

Barack Obama is a dedicated feminist who "lives surrounded by women," his half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, told a mostly female crowd at a Women For Obama event in downtown Tampa on Thursday. ...more

July 18, 2008

AVON PARK — Michelle Caibio and Casey McKibben have kept each other up on their school work, studied together, gone to the same church and will both call the University of Florida their next school. They tried to earn the same grade point average to share Avon Park High School's valedictorian prize together, but that was one of the few math problems Michelle and Casey couldn't figure out. ...more

May 7, 2008

"First, we're going to do giant big steps," proclaimed Brice Holmes, 6. ...more

May 4, 2008

Kindergarteners teach fathers to play along. ...more

May 3, 2008

Writing on a whiteboard and offering an animated lecture, Zach Cronin is teaching principles of macroeconomics to 30 or so students, about half of them from outside the United States. ...more

January 31, 2008