Floydada

The other cities include Brownfield, Floydada and Tulia.

Texas Power-Plant Deals Unravel in Local Dispute Naureen S. Malik 2011

The other cities include Brownfield, Floydada and Tulia.

Texas Power-Plant Deals Unravel in Local Dispute Naureen S. Malik 2011

Since the Floydada district launched its technology program in the 2004-05 school year, state standardized test scores have risen remarkably: Sixth-graders taught with laptops the first year saw their reading and math scores rise 27% and 15%, respectively, by eighth grade, says District Superintendent Jerry Vaughn.

An Apple for Your Teacher 2009

Titus Miller, who graduated this spring from Floydada High School in Texas, produced a video for an assignment in which he was to write a poem starting each line with the words, “I am from ...”

An Apple for Your Teacher 2009

Floydada High School English teacher Anne Carthel says the laptops have altered teaching practices.

An Apple for Your Teacher 2009

Greene County and Floydada are just two examples of how technology is impacting student achievement and the overall well being and future of youth.

Mary Ann Wolf: A Critically Needed Stimulus for Schools 2009

For an English assignment, Floydada 11th-grader Makenzie Schwertner produced a podcast spoken from the point of view of Phoebe Caulfield, the younger sister of “Catcher in the Rye” protagonist Holden Caulfield.

An Apple for Your Teacher 2009

He owned five fast-food franchises and lived in Hera only to escape "metropolises" like Tulia and Floydada.

Standoff Brown, Sandra, 1948- 2000

What happened was a bunch of folks from Floydada, Texas ...

You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years 1998

Farmer Dane Sanders, 30, who grows cotton and wheat in the northern Texas Panhandle town of Floydada, said any regulation that might require farmers to get commercial driver's licenses to operate their equipment would raise his costs.

KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011