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Mon., May 13, 2013 9:17am
We asked a bunch of economists what they would say if they were giving a commencement address this spring. Here's what they told us.
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Fri., May 10, 2013 4:01pm
Commissioners in Butts County will decide next month whether to allocate an extra $2,000 to the area’s Head Start program.
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Fri., May 10, 2013 2:39pm
Mandarin Chinese most likely to coninue being taught in Bibb County Schools.
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Fri., May 10, 2013 2:39pm
Mandarin Chinese most likely to coninue being taught in Bibb County Schools.
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Fri., May 10, 2013 11:30am
Taking a page from the playbook of decades past, college students are once again pressuring schools to pull investment funding from specific sectors. This time it's big oil and coal companies. But these campaigns have effects beyond the university they're launching a new generation of activists.
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Fri., May 10, 2013 10:00am
Police say a teenager has been apprehended and charged with murder in the case of a Middle Georgia State College student missing for more than two weeks. Campus police say the 17-year-old suspect was taken into custody Thursday night.
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Fri., May 10, 2013 6:15am
The Department of Justice has reached an agreement with the University of Montana to resolve an investigation into the school's response to accusations of sexual harassment since 2009. The federal inquiry will continue to examine how Missoula city officials have handled such cases.
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Thu., May 9, 2013 11:45am
Jeffrey Selingo, an editor with The Chronicle of Higher Education, argues that American colleges have lost their way. In College (Un)bound, he describes the challenges facing American higher education and takes a close look at what college students are getting in return for their tuition.
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Wed., May 8, 2013 4:15pm
Science education standards, issued in April, recommend teaching climate change for the first time. But one nonprofit says kids aren't learning enough, soon enough, about how their world will change in the coming decades. The group aims to remedy this with presentations in schools nationwide.
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Wed., May 8, 2013 3:59pm
Local school officials around the state are reacting to new education progress reports. The College and Career Ready Performance Index released this week is Georgia's new measure of how schools are faring. A school official in Savannah-Chatham County says the numbers paint a better picture than the old standard of Adequate Yearly Progress.
