Managing workplace gossip
- December 3, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / training-development
Inc.com offers advice on how to manage workplace gossip before it becomes a distraction and a detriment to your business.
Lawmakers look to take mental health courts statewide
- December 3, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson and Margie Menzel
- / community-dashboard
Lawmakers mull taking specialty courts statewide, Escambia County already offers drug, mental health and veterans courts.
Why a diploma pays off for all of us
- December 2, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / education
Even if the would-be grad isn't yours, your future depends on making sure as many sons and daughters of Pensacola get the basic education they need.
Video: Poverty impacts education
- December 2, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / video
Studer Community Institute Editor Shannon Nickinson appeared on The Daily Brew to talk about new research that identifies pockets of poverty in Escambia County.
Where poor students have the best chance to graduate
- December 1, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / education
Which Pensacola metro area high schools have the highest percentage of economically disadvantaged students who graduate?
The new SAT is on the way
- December 1, 2015
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
The revamped SAT will debut on March 5. It is expected be more closely aligned with the Common Core curriculum, which equates to increased rigor and deeper thinking.
Getting back into the fold
- November 30, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
As federal prison sentencing reform returns people to community in Pensacola and elsewhere, REAP and others look to help the transition in job, life skills.
Improving graduation rates is a boost for the economy
- November 30, 2015
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
Improving graduation rates will take serious investments from the entire community, as well as structural changes in the education system.
Poverty pockets hold back Escambia
- November 29, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / education
Research by the Studer Community Institute and UWF has found that the poverty rate for households with children is 10 percent or higher in a third of the Census tracts in Escambia County.
Commuters show the ties that bind Escambia, Santa Rosa counties.
- November 29, 2015
- / Rick Harper
- / community-dashboard
UWF's Rick Harper notes Escambia, Santa Rosa are part of an integrated whole. The best economic progress we could make would be to all rise together.