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AJC special report: SAT scores rise with family wealth. A notable exception in state: Norcross High
The AJC education team looked at recently released 2013 SAT scores for metro Atlanta high schools and found something that critics have long said: Scores are closely tied to a factor beyond any student's aptitude: the amount of money their parents have.
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Cherokee board member incurs censure, fine. And Kelly Marlow still faces more trouble ahead.
Many Cherokee parents probably hope their school board sideshow ends. But there are a few more acts left in the tragicomedy starring board member Kelly Marlow.
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Remember the 'I Quit Teach for America' essay? Here's the counterpoint. 'I stayed.'
Tre Tennyson spent two years with Teach for America at an Atlanta school and is planning now to teach in China.
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High school: Can't we make it better?
I have been talking to metro Atlanta teens at every opportunity and I am hearing the same stories about their high schools.
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Lessons from abroad: Effort over talent
After living in Japan for five years, where praise of children was spare and authentic, writer Christine Gross-Loh returned home to the United States where children earn trophies for matching their socks.
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The hunt for a new leader of Atlanta Public Schools has picked up steam, with superintendent candidates being targeted from across the country to replace Erroll Davis, who will retire next year.
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Fulton County police have a video clip that shows the face of a man suspected of shooting another beside the pumps at a Chevron gas station early Sunday, but they don’t have a name.
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