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Assistant Superintendent of Schools Chris Matthews gives an update on Fulton County Schools Student Support Services during the school board’s Dec. 10 work session. (Photo supplied by FCS)

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Fulton Schools’ support services makes strides for vulnerable students

Fulton County Schools Board of Education members learned during their Dec. 10 work session about how the district’s Student Support Services identifies students in crisis, offers counseling, helps improve reading skills, and gets aid from corporate and nonprofit partnerships.

December 13, 2024
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  • Bob Pepalis
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He was a UGA star and Super Bowl winner. But Malcolm Mitchell says literacy is his greatest victory

As part of Georgia Pre-K Week, a celebration of the state's pre-K program, Georgia resident and former NFL star Malcolm Mitchell joined political leaders and local celebrities in reading to children. Literacy is important to Mitchell, who spoke to GPB's Orlando Montoya in the studio.

October 11, 2024
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  • Orlando Montoya
Former Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal poses. in Atlanta, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. Deal has written a children’s book about his two cats, continuing his efforts to improve the state's literacy rates.

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A Georgia governor's latest work after politics: a children's book on his cats 'Veto' and 'Bill'

Former Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has written a children's book about his two cats, continuing to champion for early literacy efforts. "Veto, the Governor's Cat" is a tribute to his late wife, Sandra Deal, who read books to students at more than 1,000 schools across Georgia.

August 08, 2024
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  • Associated Press

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Literacy levels suffered in the pandemic. The Governor's Summit aims to get reading back on track

Reports show that since the pandemic, Georgia has seen significant struggles and drops in youth literacy rates. To address this issue, many initiatives have been implemented, one of them being the 2024 Governor's Summit at the Sandra Dunagan Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy.

July 16, 2024
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  • Mira Donaldson
An illustration from his book <em>Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows</em>, by illustrator Rachel Moss. It depicts Juleus Ghunta and his teacher described in his Unsung Hero story.

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Growing up, he struggled to read. Then a young teacher saw his potential

Juleus Ghunta is a published children's author and award-winning poet. But growing up, he could barely read. That was until a teacher saw his potential.

April 15, 2024
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  • Laura Kwerel and
  • Brigid McCarthy
A student works through classwork in a summer reading class in Bibb County last summer.

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Some Georgia teachers will get extra help navigating the 'Science of Reading'

The Department of Education and the Atlanta-based Rollins Center for Language and Literacy will offer help to primary school teachers getting up to speed on new state reading standards. 

November 14, 2023
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  • Grant Blankenship
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As content floods social media around the war between Israel and Hamas, media literacy can help

Many teens and young adults turn to social media for news. But since the war between Isreal and Hamas broke out, social media sites have been flooded with content, some of it misinformation. A marketing professor at Emory University says media literacy can help.

October 20, 2023
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  • Devon Zwald
Georgia Council on Literacy Chair Scott Johnson and Georgia Literacy Coach Miranda Williams present an update on Georgia’s board of education. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder.

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Georgia aims to boost low literacy rate, in part by copying Mississippi’s successful blueprint

One of the 30-member Georgia Council on Literacy’s first tasks has been to examine other states that have seen success in boosting literacy, including Mississippi, once a public education laughingstock, where more than a decade of effort has begun yielding major improvements in recent years.

October 11, 2023
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  • Ross Williams
Third-grade students take part in a small group reading session at Beecher Hills Elementary School on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, in Atlanta. Mounting evidence shows that students who took part in remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic lost about half of an academic year of learning.

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High-stakes year begins for kids still learning to read

Mounting evidence from around the country shows that students who spent more time learning remotely during the 2020-2021 school year, many of them Black and Latino, lost about half of an academic year of learning. That's twice as much as their peers who studied in person that year.

September 01, 2022
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  • Associated Press

The Great American Read Finds America's Favorite Books

The Great American Read has started a national conversation about America's favorite books. For the PBS series, you are invited to join in — and vote —...

August 09, 2018
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  • Fenly Foxen and
  • Virginia Prescott

The Breakroom: iPhone 7, WebMD, And No More Facts

It's Friday! Our Breakroom gang returns to discuss the week’s news, including the new iPhone, minority-majority in Norcross, and self-diagnosing...

September 16, 2016
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  • Adam Ragusea and
  • Taylor Gantt

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