December 7th, 2011, 05:12
Emily Gray (BSEd ’02) a physical education teacher at Red Cedar Elementary School in Bluffton, S.C., was one of several teachers across the country representing their schools at the HealthierUS School Challenge Celebration at the White House in October.
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December 5th, 2011, 10:12
“UGA alumna aims to rebuild trust as No. 2 boss of Atlanta Public Schools,“ reads a headline on a November 27 story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution on Karen Waldon (BSEd ’80). Waldon, who received her bachelor’s in speech education from UGA, was hired in September 2011 as the deputy superintendent for curriculum and instruction for Atlanta Public Schools.
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December 5th, 2011, 10:12
Wendy Little (BSEd ’92, MEd ’97), a fifth-grade math and science teacher at Youth Elementary School, has been named 2011 Teacher of the Year for Walton County Public Schools.
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November 17th, 2011, 03:11
Traci Jackson (EdS ’99), principal at Shirley Hills Elementary School in Houston County, was one of only seven educators in the nation to receive the Terrel H. Bell Award for Outstanding School Leadership on Nov. 15 at the 2011 National Blue Ribbon Schools Awards Ceremony in Washington D.C.
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November 16th, 2011, 02:11
Michael Rhett, a sergeant in the Air Force Reserves who has a doctorate in education from the University of Georgia, has said he will run for a Cobb County Commission seat, reports brief in the November 16 issue of the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
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October 18th, 2011, 08:10
Bonnie Stewart Holliday has been named by Gov. Nathan Deal as executive director of the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement.
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October 11th, 2011, 08:10
Shelly Allen (PhD ’10, EdS ’07, BSEd ’89), mathematics coordinator for the Richmond County School District, was quoted extensively in an Oct. 8 front page story in the New York Times on the Carnegie Learning mathematics program.
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October 3rd, 2011, 08:10
UGA College of Education graduate Margaret C. Hagood, now a faculty member at the College of Charleston, was named co-editor of The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy beginning this fall through 2016.
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September 27th, 2011, 08:09
University of Georgia English education graduate Robert Lamb, an author and writing instructor at the University of South Carolina, recently published his third novel titled, A Majority of One
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September 6th, 2011, 08:09
University of Georgia education alumnus Jonathan Eakle has been named to the Faculty Editorial Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins University Press—the oldest university press in the United States. Video link inside: Eakle on bringing new ideas to public education.
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