April 23rd, 2012, 08:04
University of Georgia College of Education professor Thomas Hébert was recently honored as the 2012 Outstanding Alumni by the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut.
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March 28th, 2012, 05:03
The June 19, 2011 issue of Newsweek magazine dropped a bomb with a cover story about the decline of creativity in America. Based on the research of Kyung Hee Kim, this story was part of the awakening in this country to something that much of rest of the world has realized and acted upon—the importance [...]
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April 16th, 2012, 08:04
University of Georgia College of Education professor Tarek Grantham has received the 2012 Mary M. Frasier Equity and Excellence Award from the Georgia Association for Gifted Children.
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April 10th, 2012, 09:04
Cindy Vail an associate professor and associate head of the department of educational psychology and instructional technology, is quoted in an April 10 Atlanta Journal Constitution story on Georgia’s highly rated pre-k program and its requirements for lead teachers to have a bachelor’s degree.
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March 27th, 2012, 11:03
“Teachers, Counselors, and Psychologists for Talent Development among Culturally Different Students: Closing the Achievement Gap for Students’ Sake, For Our Sake!” Bio Room 206 Aderhold Hall The lecture is open to faculty, staff, students and visitors. Please reply to Mrs. Kristina Collins adminldr@uga.edu by Wednesday, April 4th if you plan to attend. Instructors who plan to bring students from class, RSVP to Dr. Tarek Grantham grantham@uga.edu and [...]
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April 6th, 2012, 10:04
Five University of Georgia College of Education faculty members—Donna Alvermann, Allan Cohen, Cynthia Dillard, Peter Smagorinsky and Jonathan Templin—will be recognized for their work at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association this weekend.
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April 5th, 2012, 03:04
The University of Georgia’s Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Education and Human Development will present the Structural Equation Modeling Workshop that will introduce the basics of model estimation and enhance the use of the LISREL computer package from May 15-18 at the UGA Hotel and Conference Center.
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April 5th, 2012, 03:04
University of Georgia alumna Kyung Hee Kim, whose research suggesting a decline in creativity in America caused a nationwide stir last summer, will discuss her research and more when she delivers the 2012 E. Paul Torrance Lecture at UGA on Wednesday, April 18.
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March 30th, 2012, 04:03
Karen Samuelsen, an assistant professor in research evaluation measurement and statistics in the University of Georgia’s College of Education, is once again seeking your donation for a worthy community cause. And once again, she’ll dance for it.
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March 26th, 2012, 05:03
“There’s very little empirical research out there,” said UGA instructional technology graduate Michael K. Barbour (PhD ’07) of Wayne State University in a March 26 Atlanta Journal Constitution article on the value of online education.
is quoted on the value of online education by Atlanta Journal Constitution columnist Maureen Downey as she examines the possibilities offered by computer-based or virtual learning in the March 26 op/ed page of the AJC. Barbour said that “there’s very little empirical research out there” on the effectiveness of computer-based learning.
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