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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.,…
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College provides fertile ground for a solid education
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…
There’s a spot in North Georgia where some 1,600 people – students, faculty and staff – get to learn, work, play and serve others in what they refer to as University in the Park because of its beauty and tranquility.…
It’s been a busy year for the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG). Over the past 12 months, the TCSG and its 22 technical colleges kept their focus on increasing the state’s workforce by implementing initiatives to boost growth in…
Georgia has too many chronically failing schools – some 139 of them. Nobody disputes that, and nobody disputes that something needs to be done. But determining the what and the how is the hard part. The legislature took a crack…
Bud Peterson, who has been at Georgia Tech since 2009, presides over one of the country’s most prestigious technical institutes, engaged in far-reaching research and innovative economic development activities. It has changed dramatically in the last few years, moving well…
For most boarding school students wistfully unpacking their luggage for the first time, those initial pangs of homesickness do not last long. “The schools typically try to keep you confined to campus for the first six weeks and immerse you…
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