September 14th, 2011, 09:09
Four University of Georgia faculty members—Steve Oliver, Jay Rojewski, Peter Smagorinsky and Sally Zepeda—have been named as the College of Education’s first Distinguished Research Mentors for the 2011-12 academic year.
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August 11th, 2011, 08:08
Four University of Georgia graduate students in the College of Education have received Glickman Dissertation Awards for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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July 26th, 2011, 10:07
William Wraga, a professor of educational administration and policy, wrote an article titled, “Curtail accountability, cultivate attainability,” that was published in the summer 2011 issue of the Kappa Delta Pi Record, a publication of the international honor society in education.
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July 15th, 2011, 10:07
Atlanta Public Schools cannot be fixed without fixing our dysfunctional education policy, writes William Wraga, a professor in the program in educational administration and policy at the College of Education, University of Georgia in the July 15 “Get Schooled” blog of the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
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July 11th, 2011, 09:07
The first comprehensive examination of philanthropy activity in this area reveals that much of this funding came from a relatively small number of foundations and went to a relatively small group of recipients.
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July 11th, 2011, 09:07
Ten foundations accounted for half of the $684 million directed to education by philanthropists from 2000-08, according to a new report released today by the University of Georgia and Kronley & Associates.
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June 29th, 2011, 04:06
COE alumna Selma Blankenship (PhD ’09), associate principal at Clarke Central High School, was named principal of Hilsman Middle School on Monday night, effective for the 2011-12 school year, reports the June 29 Athens Banner-Herald.
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June 6th, 2011, 09:06
As more private companies run public schools, some ask who’s in charge, said Elizabeth DeBray, an associate professor in lifelong education, administration, and policy in a June 5 Athens Banner-Herald story on the recent Georgia Supreme Court ruling on charter schools
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May 10th, 2011, 02:05
Kathy Carrollton, a former classroom teacher, worked engagingly with students to facilitate continuing interaction and participation during a recent three-hour visit to campus as a guest lecturer in a class taught by Sally Zepeda.
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April 26th, 2011, 11:04
Former UGA education professor Eric Houck, now at the University of North Carolina, and co-researcher Sheneka Williams, an assistant professor in educational administration and policy, write an op/ed article in the April 15 issue of The Raleigh (NC) News & Observer about what their research in the Wake County Public School System found after their work was cited in a letter from the school system to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights defending recent controversial moves to eliminate the district’s socioeconomically-based student assignment policy.
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