The number of Florida's kindergarteners showing early literacy skills reached its highest point to date and Highlands County scores improved on all three screening tests administered to kindergarteners. ...more

December 28, 2008

Young mothers with babes in arms and toddlers in tow gathered in a cozy, colorful anteroom outside a little house on Hummingbird Lane. ...more

October 22, 2008

Isaac Everett will be starting prekindergarten next month, but the 4-year-old is already learning how to read at the Sebring Public Library. ...more

July 31, 2008

Renaissance Academy, a private school for the arts, plans to add a preschool program in August. ...more

May 10, 2008

SEBRING — Highlands County kindergartners entered school this year better prepared to learn, according to three screening tests. ...more

December 25, 2007

SEBRING — DIBELS sounds like a bite-sized snack food, but it spells out the acronym for a short series of tests that screen and monitor student progress in learning the skills to become successful readers. Starting Monday and during the next two weeks, the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy tests will be administered in all the elementary grades. The state tracks the DIBELS results for grades K-3, but all elementary students in the district are tested, Elementary Programs Coordinator Joyce McClelland said. Also, some middle school grades have a similar reading skills test. ...more

September 15, 2007