Education

Used to be there were hard lines between high school, college and career. College and career academies are changing all that.

Until the early 2000s, the practice of law and legal education hadn’t changed much since the days of powdered wigs. Even now, legal communication is filled with Latin phrases – a dead language – and the study of law still…

On the leafy Emory University campus, on the fourth floor of the Winship Cancer Institute, Dr. Adam Marcus and his research team are studying how leader and follower cancer cells metastasize – what causes them to break away from the…

No question, Georgia has a shortage of public school teachers. It’s gotten harder to recruit them – there’s a smaller pool of candidates – and harder to retain them as job satisfaction has declined. Enrollment in University System of Georgia…

Georgia Trend’s annual listing of the state’s colleges, universities and technical schools, with information on admissions, costs and courses of study.

Dr. Meria Carstarphen arrived in 2014 to head a system troubled by underperforming schools and still reeling from a catastrophic standardized-test cheating scandal that sent 11 educators to jail and cost the previous superintendent her job. Carstarphen, a Selma, Ala.,…

The leading edge of a new industry is just where a university wants to position itself, and Clayton State University – in Morrow, just 18 miles south of downtown Atlanta – is in the perfect place to take advantage of…