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October 18th, 2012, 11:10

Language-Culture Service Learning course on UGA home page

The Language and Culture Service-Learning course at UGA Costa Rica, co-directed by Paula Mellom, research scientist in the College of Education’s Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education, is the “Teaching” feature on uga.edu this week.

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October 10th, 2012, 08:10

7th International Conference on the Dialogical Self October 25-28

More than 150 psychologists and scholars from around the world are expected to attend the Seventh International Conference on the Dialogical Self, hosted by the University of Georgia College of Education at the UGA Hotel and Conference Center at the Georgia Center October 25-28.

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International Jrnl Multicultrual Ed70

October 2nd, 2012, 01:10

Faculty co-author article on challenging anti-immigration discourses

COE faculty Martha Allexsaht-Snider, Cory A. Buxton and Ruth Harman co-authored a peer-reviewed article titled, “Challenging Anti-Immigration Discourses in School and Community Contexts,” in the International Journal of Multicultural Education.

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October 2nd, 2012, 12:10

Fecho, Jones write about creative writing in The Atlantic

COE faculty members Stephanie Jones and Bob Fecho write an op-ed in October 1 edition of The Atlantic titled, “Creativity is Not the Enemy of Good Writing.”

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September 27th, 2012, 09:09

Smagorinsky: Another great teacher – Gwinnett’s Angela Dean

Peter Smagorinsky, UGA Distinguished Research Professor of language and literacy education, writes about College of Education alumna Angela Dean (BSEd ’02, MEd ’07) in the “Get Schooled” blog in the September 27 issue of the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

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September 10th, 2012, 08:09

Smagorinsky op/ed: When a teacher teaches in a lonely forest

Peter Smagorinsky, UGA Distinguished Research Professor, writes an op/ed on the quality and effectiveness of teaching in a September 10 Atlanta Journal Constitution op/ed article.

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September 10th, 2012, 08:09

Smagorinsky op/ed: For whom are common core standards developed?

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

Barron named 2013 National Middle Level Principal of Year

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

Smagorinsky lauds Toombs County teacher in AJC op/ed

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

Smagorinsky: A century later, teaching well is still hard work

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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