Education

There was a time 50 years ago when today’s 24-school Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) was only a smattering of vocational schools and courses were just about limited to auto repair for the boys and cosmetology in a hair…

The results came in for Sammye E. Coan Middle School, and they were very good, which is why school principal Betsy Bockman was so worried. “I thought, ‘Oh, great, now they’re going to investigate us,’ because our positive growth was…

Kennesaw State University is all grown up. Originally chartered as a two-year junior college 50 years ago – Oct. 9, 1963, to be precise – KSU is now the third-largest university in Georgia with more than 24,600 students from 132…

  Folks driving along busy Peachtree Road north of Buckhead have probably caught a glimpse of Oglethorpe University behind the stone walls and wrought iron fencing and imagined the place to be exclusive and stuffy. Those folks would be wrong.…

  Barbara Grimm couldn’t imagine sending her son Will to their Savannah neighborhood’s middle school, where the academic expectations were low and discipline was almost nonexistent – not the combination she was looking for. Grimm, a teacher who left the…

  Ninth grade is a critical year for struggling students, a time when school can seem overwhelming. “In general, ninth grad-ers are still immature,” says Josh Morreale, principal of Cobb Coun-ty’s Osborne High School. “If we can get them to…

  Back when Shirley Strum Kenny was transforming the State University of New York at Stony Brook into one of the nation’s top research institutions, she learned a lesson about the virtues of patience from renowned architect John Belle, who…

  There was a time when rising enrollments at Georgia’s tech-nical colleges were as predictable as azaleas in the spring, climbing annually by double digits. But the onset of a fading economy in 2007 led to across-the-board budget cuts and…