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News Articles: Education

Overall grades for Georgia's schools fell in the 2018-2019 school year, with Gov. Brian Kemp and state Superintendent Richard Woods repeating their calls Friday to overhaul grading methods.

Georgia School Grades Fall; Officials Call For Changes

Overall grades for Georgia's schools fell in the 2018-2019 school year, with Gov. Brian Kemp and state Superintendent Richard Woods repeating their...

October 26, 2019
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By:
  • Associated Press
Create Your Dreams mentors students from the 2nd grade until they no longer need CYD's support. CYD's executive director Kim Dennis says their program is like "extreme mentoring."

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  • Education

Create Your Dreams Celebrates 25 Years Of 'Extreme Mentoring' For Under-Served Youth in Atlanta

Create Your Dreams , or CYD, is an after school program that provides long-term youth development, and is dedicated to helping students in underserved...

October 16, 2019
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • Jake Troyer ,
  • and 1 more
In this file photo, chairs sit empty in a classroom of Hunt Elementary School in Fort Valley, Ga., on Monday, May 17, 2010.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Grading Georgia's Public Education System

On this edition of Political Rewind, we’re focusing on the state of public education in Georgia.

September 09, 2019
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By:
  • Bill Nigut
The middle school students of the Global Village Project during a visit to the Tubman African American Museum in Macon.

For Learning English, A Song Of Freedom

Learning English is not easy. That can be true even for immigrants to the United States who have had the benefit of the best education available in the...

September 05, 2019
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
The Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens facilitated women's education before the University of Georgia accepted female students.

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  • Education

School's Back In Session: Women's Fight For Educational Inclusion

As students get back into the swing of classes, we remember women's educational opportunities in the 19th Century were few and far between. Finishing...

August 30, 2019
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Elena Rivera

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  • Education

On Second Thought For Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019

Atlanta magazine calculates students who graduate from some of Georgia’s largest schools end up with an average of $27,000 in debt. Before it’s time to...

August 13, 2019
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • Amy Kiley ,
  • and 6 more
Cherokee County School District Executive Director of Social and Emotional Learning Debra Murdock (left) and Superintendent Dr. Brian V. Hightower.

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  • Mental Health

How Schools Use Social, Emotional Learning Curriculum To Teach Mental Health

As mental health becomes a political talking point, Georgia schools are finding innovative ways to make social and emotional learning part of the...

August 12, 2019
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • Ellen Eldridge ,
  • and 1 more
Captian Guy Stallworth and Jerome Wellens pilot in the cockpit of the "Dream Flight"

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  • Education

'Dream Flight' Helps Promotes Diversity In Aviation

The 20 th Annual Dream Flight is part of the Aviation Career Education Academy is a summer program for 14- to 18-year-olds. It’s part of the Delta Air...

July 26, 2019
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • Amy Kiley ,
  • and 1 more
Students in an English class at Northeast High School in Macon in 2017.

Georgia Schools Given OK To Move Away From Year-End Tests

Georgia has been given the green light by the U.S. Department of Education to experiment with leaving high stakes, year-end testing behind. But now...

July 22, 2019
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
The Macon-Bibb County School System is serving hot meals to food insecure kids in hopes that will lure more families to their summer food program.

Summer Meals Are Heating Up For Hungry Kids In Macon

Most kids who rely on free or reduced-price lunch during the school year lose that steady source of food when the summer begins. To help compensate for...

June 18, 2019
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By:
  • Emily Rose Thorne
Rivers-Cannon works with students at Booker T. Washington High School (above) and Fickett Elementary School in Atlanta.

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  • Education

Georgia's Own Terrilyn Rivers-Cannon Is 2019 National School Social Worker Of The Year

Terrilyn Rivers-Cannon didn't always want to be a social worker. Growing up in Savannah, she wanted to become an attorney. Rivers-Cannon didn't decide...

June 04, 2019
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By:
  • Leighton Rowell and
  • Virginia Prescott

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  • News

On Second Thought For Tuesday, June 4, 2019

The state of Georgia — and the country — is divided over so-called "heartbeat" bills and other new state laws restricting abortion. Many are confused...

June 04, 2019
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 3 more
COURTESY NEXT GENERATION MEN AND WOMEN

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  • Education

How Mentors Contribute To Georgia's Increasing Graduation Rates

Georgia’s high school graduation rate has increased over the past several years. For the third year in a row, the state’s graduation rate is above 80%....

May 21, 2019
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By:
  • La'Raven Taylor and
  • Virginia Prescott
Science teacher Sarah Ott speaks to her class about climate literacy in Dalton, Ga. Teachers across the country describe struggles finding trustworthy materials to help them teach their students about climate change.

Old, Misleading Info Among Perils Of Teaching Climate Change

When science teacher Diana Allen set out to teach climate change, a subject she'd never learned in school, she fell into a rabbit's hole of...

May 15, 2019
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By:
  • Associated Press
J'son Hayes works on a computer in his prekindergarten class at a public school.

Program Aims To Help Children Learn Before Entering School

Parents in west Georgia and east Alabama now have a new resource to help their babies and toddlers learn before they enter school.

May 11, 2019
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  • Associated Press
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