March 22nd, 2012, 12:03
Researchers from the UGA College of Education led by Karen Samuelsen are using Gainesville City Schools and Hall County Schools as a test site for their “Instructional Conversation” study, which aims to spark an educational dialogue between English-language learners in upper elementary grades and their teachers, reports a story in the March 18 issue of The Gainesville (GA) Times.
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March 20th, 2012, 01:03
UGA College of Education student Tonia Dousay has been chosen as president-elect of the Graduate Student Assembly of the Association for Education Communication and Technology.
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March 12th, 2012, 03:03
Mark Runco, professor of gifted and creative education at the University of Georgia, is quoted in an op-ed column written by Joan Sewell about the healthy benefits of people expressing their creativity in the March 11 issue of The Walton Tribune.
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March 1st, 2012, 08:03
A book written by University of Georgia College of Education professor Thomas Hébert has won a prestigious national award from a Texas gifted education group.
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February 23rd, 2012, 10:02
Allan Cohen, director of the Georgia Center for Assessment and the Aderhold Professor of Research Methodology in the University of Georgia College of Education, has been named the recipient of a national award for his career contributions to educational measurement.
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February 7th, 2012, 04:02
A study published last year by COE professor Amy Reschly and fourth-year doctoral student Rebecca Landis that compares the data between states with different dropout ages, found it didn’t make much difference at what age students drop out of school, cites a blog published in the Feb. 3 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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February 7th, 2012, 07:02
The University of Georgia College of Education’s doctoral program in school psychology is ranked among the best in the nation in research productivity and scholarly impact, according to a study published in the December 2011 issue of the Journal of School Psychology.
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February 6th, 2012, 11:02
Professor Emeritus Thomas C. Reeves, an instructional technology expert at the UGA College of Education was quoted in a Feb. 4 Los Angeles Times column which argues that efforts to hype classroom technology helps tech firms, not students.
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November 9th, 2011, 11:11
A study by COE researchers Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett and Cynthia Vail showing that students from families in poverty that attend pre-k programs in Georgia achieve higher scores than their peers over 10 years, was featured in a November 8 Red & Black article.
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November 4th, 2011, 09:11
The Newnan Times Herald cited a UGA College of Education study by Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett and Cynthia Vail which showed children from poor families who attended pre-kindergarten academically out-performed peers who did not, in an October 30 editorial supporting Georgia’s pre-k program. NOTE: Link to editorial no longer available.
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