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September 14th, 2011, 09:09

College names four inaugural Distinguished Research Mentors

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 receive Glickman Dissertation Awards

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

‘Curtail accountability, cultivate attainability,’ writes Wraga

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

UGA report analyzes philanthropic investment in teaching

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

UGA report analyzes philanthropic investment in teaching

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

Georgia DOE manager speaks to UGA education class

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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