September 10th, 2012, 08:09
UGA Distinguished Research Professor Peter Smagorinsky questions the approach being taken in today’s education reform in a September 7 op/ed in the Athens Patch.
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August 22nd, 2012, 10:08
University of Georgia College of Education alumna Laurie Barron, of Coweta County’s Smokey Road Middle School, has been named the 2013 MetLife/NASSP National Middle Level Principal of the Year.
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August 15th, 2012, 09:08
UGA Distinguished Research Professor of Language and Literacy Education Peter Smagorinsky lauds Toombs County teacher Travis Ellington in an August 13 article in the the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s “Get Schooled” blog.
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August 6th, 2012, 09:08
Peter Smagorinsky, UGA Distinguished Research Professor of language and literacy education, writes in an August 5 op/ed article on Athens Patch that that the public’s dim view of teachers was cited as a problem a century ago, and that even under vastly more favorable conditions than teachers face today, teaching well is still backbreaking work.
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July 16th, 2012, 09:07
Peter Smagorinsky, UGA Distinguished Research Professor of language and literacy education, writes an op/ed article in the July 14 issue of the Atlanta Journal Constitution titled, “Great Georgia Teachers: Beyond the test scores.”
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July 2nd, 2012, 09:07
UGA Distinguished Research Professor Peter Smagorinsky writes an op-ed in the June 30 Washington Post titled, “Test mandates flunk cost-benefit analysis.”
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June 26th, 2012, 08:06
While most students in Athens and Northeast Georgia have been enjoying a summer vacation, some of their teachers have been in the classroom this month to expand their knowledge and understanding of how to best teach writing.
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June 13th, 2012, 02:06
UGA Distinguished Research Professor Peter Smagorinksy writes a provocative essay on the manufactured crises in education in the AJC‘s “Get Schooled” blog on June 13.
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June 5th, 2012, 10:06
A week of poetry reading and discussion of the poetic craft featuring four top Georgia poets will be hosted by UGA College of Education professor Misha Cahnmann-Taylor July 9-13 at The Globe in downtown Athens.
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June 4th, 2012, 08:06
UGA College of Education professor Jennifer Graff was a co-author of an article published in the journal, Reading Psychology, which recently received the 2012 Albert J. Harris Award from the International Reading Association.
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