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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April 25th, 2011, 08:04
A new tenth edition of a textbook on school law first written 30 years ago by University of Georgia educational administration professor and associate dean emeritus Michael La Morte has recently been published.
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April 21st, 2011, 09:04
University of Georgia education professor Laura Bierema has published the first book on organization development theory and practice from a critical feminist perspective.
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March 1st, 2011, 01:03
Five graduate students in the University of Georgia’s educational administration and policy program received scholarships at the program’s annual awards luncheon on Feb. 18 at River’s Crossing.
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March 1st, 2011, 01:03
Two outstanding former Georgia education leaders – University of Georgia alumni William M. (Bill) Barr and Sue Snow – were recently recognized for their distinguished service to the field by the UGA College of Education’s educational administration and policy program.
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February 8th, 2011, 06:02
April Peters, an assistant professor in educational administration and policy, has co-authored an article titled, “Decoding Success: A Middle-Class Logic of Individual Advancement in a U.S. Suburb and High School,” in the Teachers College Record, Volume 112 Number 12, 2010, p. 2935-2987. (Membership required to see full text.)
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February 8th, 2011, 04:02
William G. Wraga, a professor of educational administration and policy, has published an article titled, “What’s the Problem with a ‘Rigorous Academic Curriculum’?: Setting New Terms for Students’ School Experiences” in The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, Pages 59 – 64.
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February 7th, 2011, 10:02
A proposed new online master’s degree in reading education marks only the third such program at UGA, but the university may be gearing up to take more of their degree opportunities into cyberspace, reports a front page story in the February 6 Athens Banner-Herald. COE Dean Andy Horne, Associate Dean of Outreach and Engagement Ron Cervero, Bob Fecho, professor and program coordinator of reading education and Janet Truluck, coordinator of the online master’s degree program in adult education, are quoted in the story.
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