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Wed., May 8, 2013 3:24pm
It’s been five years since a tornado robbed what was then called Macon State College of nearly all its trees, but now the campus canopy is on the mend.
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Wed., May 8, 2013 2:09pm
A west Georgia professor is getting national attention for his poetry. Nick Norwood teaches creative writing at Columbus State University. On Wednesday, May 8th A Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor read Norwood’s poem “Jarring Honey” on Writer’s Almanac for public radio.
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Wed., May 8, 2013 9:00am
The federal government has reached a settlement agreement with the DeKalb County School District over alleged harassment of a Sikh middle school student. The settlement was announced Tuesday and will be in effect through the end of the 2014-15 school year.
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Tue., May 7, 2013 6:56pm
Gov. Nathan Deal has signed a bill to standardize annual evaluations for Georgia teachers and principals based, in part, on student performance. Deal signed the legislation without comment on Tuesday, which is the last day for bill signings.
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Tue., May 7, 2013 1:05pm
The Georgia Department of Education said the average score for Georgia's elementary schools is 83.4; middle schools is 81.4 and high schools is 72.6.
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Tue., May 7, 2013 8:54am
Public schools in Georgia are preparing to receive number grades on their performance. Tuesday marks the debut of the College and Career Ready Performance Index. The new system is meant to be a more comprehensive measure of a school's performance.
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Mon., May 6, 2013 9:00am
A spokesman for the Georgia Board of Regents says the board has not approved any renovation work done at the president's home at Georgia Regents University in several years. But a variety of renovations completed since June 2010 amount to about $284,000.
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Fri., May 3, 2013 3:04pm
Faculty at San Jose State University are rebelling against pressure from their own administration to integrate MOOCs massively open online courses into their teaching. Across the country the issue is being debated on campuses and in state houses. Commentator Alva No's dips his toe into the conversation.
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Fri., May 3, 2013 1:45pm
Sugata Mitra talks about tackling a big problem: The best schools don't exist where they're needed most. For years, Mitra has given kids in Indian slums self-supervised access to the Web, and the results have changed how he thinks of teaching.
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Fri., May 3, 2013 1:45pm
Alison Gopnik's research explores the sophisticated intelligence-gathering and decision-making that babies are doing when they play. She offers a glimpse into the minds of babies and young children, to show how much and how fast they learn.
