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Opinion: Holding poor children accountable for a test score is unfair
This is a long piece by a scientist on the external factors that undermine student learning. I am increasingly realizing our mantra to poor kids can’t simply be, “Work harder and you will overcome all...
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A fellow nurse mourns tragic loss of five Georgia Southern students
This tribute to the five young women killed in an accident on I-16 near Savannah Wednesday morning is from a fellow nurse, Nancy McLaughlin of Woodstock. By Nancy McLaughlin Morgan Bass of Leesburg...
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Back of the bus: Does separating boys and girls on school bus enhance safety?
I’ve been following an interesting Facebook discussion about a new policy at an APS high school requiring boys sit in the front of the school bus and girls in the back. Students told parents the...
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Chronic absenteeism: Why do so many kids miss so much school and what can be...
JoBeth Allen is a professor emeritus in the University of Georgia department of language and literacy education. Her area of research for the past 10 years has been family-school partnerships that...
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APS chief on shooting at Grady-Carver game: Problem bigger than schools
Yesterday I posted a commentary by APS school board member Matt Westmoreland on the shooting outside the Grady-Carver football game on Friday night. A Princeton grad, Westmoreland attended Grady High...
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Sexual harassment and assault on college campuses: Why does it happen so much?
One of the most sweeping surveys of sexual assaults and misconduct on American college campuses confirms incidents are common and often go unreported. Nearly half of all respondents in the newly...
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Should high schools end football programs? Are risks to players too great?
Family, friends, teammates and classmates gathered Saturday to mourn and remember Burke County High School player Rod Williams, who died Monday after collapsing during a practice two weeks earlier. The...
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Brutal beating at a DeKalb middle school. In school. In supervised suspension.
A poster asked that we discuss an upsetting cellphone video out of DeKalb County capturing the attack of a child at Cedar Grove Middle School by another student. Channel 11 aired the footage and...
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School violence: Can we stop the blaming and look for solutions?
Myra Blackmon writes a column for the Athens Banner-Herald. A retired owner of a public relations firm, Blackmon earned a master’s of education from the University of Georgia in learning, design and...
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Why are teachers leaving? Concerns over school safety and consistent...
In its attempt to learn why teachers are leaving Georgia schools, is the state Department of Education asking the wrong questions? Recently, the DOE asked Georgia teachers to respond to a survey hoping...
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Student on LA school closings: Threat to student safety always exists,...
In light of what occurred today in Los Angeles, Andrew Liang takes on a critical topic, school safety. Andrew is a high school junior in Fulton County. He is a former reporter for the Scholastic News...
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Sex education in Georgia: Failing the grade and students
Andrea Swartzendruber, a postdoctoral fellow in the Behavioral Sciences and Health Education Department at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, takes on sex education in Georgia. Sex ed is...
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Question isn’t just why schools use corporal punishment more on black...
A reported released Thursday confirms much of the earlier research on discipline in our schools: African-American students in Georgia are twice as likely as white students to be disciplined by...
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Armed robberies at Georgia State Library: Time to close the book on public...
I spoke to a bright group of journalism students at Georgia State University Wednesday afternoon, getting there an hour early to walk the campus where I once taught a basic reporting class. I stopped...
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Death of middle school student puts focus on online dangers
Two Virginia Tech engineering students face charges in the death of a 13-year-old Blacksburg,Va., girl in a crime that seems to have begun with an online meeting. David Eisenhauer, 18, has been charged...
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Georgia House will endanger students if it passes campus carry gun bill today
UPDATE: The House passed the campus carry bill 113 to 59 after an hour of spirited debate. (I have a lot of the debate on Twitter.) Alexander Evans is a graduate student studying epidemiology at the...
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Will guns on campus scare away high school students and their parents?
Rick Diguette is a local writer and college instructor. In this piece, he warns that allowing guns on Georgia’s college campus may make parents think twice about putting their academically gifted high...
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Schools close for snow and cold. Do we need tornado days, too?
Marshall Shepherd is director of the University of Georgia’s Atmospheric Sciences Program and a professor in the department of geography. He also hosts the Weather Channel’s Sunday talk show “WX...
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Nathan Deal: Colleges should focus on education rather than guns. But aren’t...
The controversial campus carry gun bill gets a hearing today in the Senate Judiciary Committee meeting at 3 p.m. It appears a warm Senate reception awaits House Bill 859, which would allow anyone 21 or...
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Georgia Tech student leaders: We don’t want guns on our campus
The campus carry bill advancing through the Georgia Legislature has the backing of the gun lobby, the governor, the House and likely the Senate. Does it have the support of Georgia students? In this...
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