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Monday, January 3, 2005
Welcome to Get Schooled
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Welcome to our new blog, Get Schooled, your source of information and conversation about education in Georgia and in the nation. Public schools, private schools, preschool, college, continuing education. We define education broadly around here and encourage you to do the same.
Please check us regularly for updates, insights, news from around the country and the world and answers to your questions.
Our education team has 15 reporters and two editors. We are passionate about the topic we cover and have expertise in various areas such as special education, college admission and Georgia Pre-K. If we can’t answer your question, we’ll find someone who can.
We welcome comments and feedback, but please play nice. I have the power to expel you, and you won’t be entitled to a due process hearing.
Patti Ghezzi Education Reporter
Patti’s 411
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I have been an education reporter at the AJC since 1997. I covered the Gwinnett, Clayton, Henry, DeKalb and Decatur school systems before moving to an at-large post in 2001. Recently, our education reporter in DeKalb resigned, and I was dispatched back to my old position on an interim basis. I love my job. I get to visit classrooms and watch the education process happen (or not, as the case may be).
While growing up in Jackson Mississippi, I went to a small, private Christian academy. My family moved to the Philadelphia area, where I graduated from a large, public high school known for high test scores. I have always been slightly above average on standardized tests. My SAT score was 1180, if memory serves.
I graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in journalism and then taught in Japan for a year. I was a volunteer at Whitefoord Elementary School in southeast Atlanta for ten years, tutoring children on Saturday mornings. I recently earned a masters degree from at Kennesaw State University.
My most frequently asked question: Do you have kids? My husband and I are in the process of adopting two children. People say everything I think about education will change when I actually have kids in school. I know this about education: the more you think you know, the more you realize you need to know more.
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