Education Archive

The following North Okaloosa residents earned spring semester academic honors at Lurleen B. Wallace Community College:

LAUREL HILL — Chloe Collinsworth is University of West Florida bound.

CRESTVIEW — Crestview High School teacher Dana Baum's advanced placement European history students could share classroom screen time as they search for, find and compare answers and information.

BAKER — Leaving Baker School, which senior Malcolm Griffith has attended since kindergarten, will be strange.

CRESTVIEW — Evan Stegner, recipient of an Auburn University presidential scholarship and a True Blue scholarship for Auburn alumni's children, says he looks forward to studying engineering this fall.

BAKER — Baker School students are learning more about computers as part of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics curriculum.

CRESTVIEW — You could say that retiring Crestview High School Principal Bob Jones' retirement plans are up in the air, as they prominently include his passion for aviation.

CRESTVIEW — Dexter Day has come full circle at Crestview High School.

The Military Order of the Purple Heart has designated Northwest Florida State College as a Purple Heart College.

Writing proficiency has improved significantly among Okaloosa County’s middle school and high school students, according to results from the 2014 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.