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Second-grade teacher Anesha Williams gives Malae Tucker a hug as they gather in the gym on the first day of school at Tuskegee Airmen Global Academy. Bob Andres / robert.andres@ajc.com
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Opinion: Teachers sacrifice more than we can ever know
Forsyth parents are upset over the cancellation of a long scheduled SAT this Saturday at West Forsyth High School in Cumming. The school was also hosting a major track meet and could not handle both test-takers and the track audience.
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Last-minute cancellation of SAT frustrates Forsyth parents
State Superintendent Richard Woods at a school visit. (Photo courtesy of GaDOE)
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State school chief to teachers: This year was not just a struggle, but an accomplishment
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Second-grade teacher Anesha Williams gives Malae Tucker a hug as they gather in the gym on the first day of school at Tuskegee Airmen Global Academy. Bob Andres / robert.andres@ajc.com
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Opinion: Teachers sacrifice more than we can ever know
Forsyth parents are upset over the cancellation of a long scheduled SAT this Saturday at West Forsyth High School in Cumming. The school was also hosting a major track meet and could not handle both test-takers and the track audience.
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Last-minute cancellation of SAT frustrates Forsyth parents
State Superintendent Richard Woods at a school visit. (Photo courtesy of GaDOE)
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State school chief to teachers: This year was not just a struggle, but an accomplishment
Pre-K students listen to a story at a school in Fulton County. (AJC File Photo)
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Opinion: Universal pre-K is not government overreach or massive subsidy
After school closings, remote learning, reopening and exposure quarantines, many parents want a carefree and school-free summer for their kids. But experts say kids need refreshers on what they might have missed due to the pandemic. (AJC file photo / John Spink)
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Only 30% of low-income students in University System of Georgia institutions received the HOPE or Zell Miller scholarships. Curtis Compton / ccompton@ajc.com
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Opinion: Students chose a college. Now, how do they pay for it?
President Joe Biden, flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (Melina Mara/POOL/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)
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OPINION: Oconee school board isn’t giving true access during pandemic
Students are introduced to a math assignment at Peyton Forest Elementary school in 2018. BOB ANDRES /BANDRES@AJC.COM
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Opinion: Rethink how we teach math
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 (Susan Walsh/Pool/CNP/Zuma Press/TNS)
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Miguel Cardona: We just can’t turn on lights and start teaching
People march on Edgewood Avenue following the verdict in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Like the rest of the country, Atlanta residents awaited the verdict Tuesday afternoon for Chauvin, who is accused of killing George Floyd. At 5 p.m., the verdict was announced: Guilty. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Opinion: Did college leaders show moral leadership in responses to Chauvin verdict?
Current and former University of Georgia students, faculty and community activists march toward Baldwin Hall on May 6, 2019, on the University of Georgia campus in Athens. The demonstrators have pushed the school to offer various forms of reparations to address how, they say, the university has taken advantage of descendants of enslaved peoples, pay a higher working wage for university employees and give justice to the slaves who were found buried below Baldwin Hall. CHRISTINA R. MATACOTTA / AJC
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Opinion: University of Georgia stonewalls racial justice and reckoning
These sgns were placed on the fence in front of the White House in Washington during racial inequality protests last summer. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS)
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Opinion: Ugly reality of racism plays out in our classrooms
6/6/20 - Atlanta - On a day that would have been the start of Summerfest, canceled due to the pandemic, about 1,000 protesters gathered at the corner of Virginia and North Highland Avenues and marched down Virginia Avenue to Piedmont Park, where they planned to join with other protest groups and march downtown. (Bob Andres / bandres@ajc.com)
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Sorting and sharing stories of pandemic, racial strife, Capitol attack with our kids
Some educators feel the pandemic has made teaching harder and increased criticisms of the profession. (AJC File Photo)
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Clarkdale Elementary School students sit in pairs, one at each end of the table, as they wait for their school bus to arrive after school in Austell. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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Cobb parents ask courts to overturn school mask mandate
A Cobb County Superior Court judge granted a motion to dismiss a civil lawsuit against two Harrison High School employees brought by parents angered over the school's response to an alleged bullying incident involving their son.
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Education experts say states and school districts ought to think carefully and creatively on how they will spend the $122 billion in funds coming their way from the American Rescue Plan.
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Some researchers and education advocates believe COVID will have devastating and long-lasting impacts on kids. Yet, other experts dispute the “lost year” rhetoric and predictions that U.S. children have suffered irreparable harm.
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In this 2019 photo, Connecticut transgender athlete Terry Miller (second from left) runs a race with transgender athlete Andraya Yearwood (far left) and other high school runners in New Haven, Conn. Miller and Yearwood are among Connecticut transgender athletes who sparked a federal lawsuit filed last year by three athletes who felt it was unfair trans students could compete in girls’ sports. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb, File)
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Surge of ‘Save Girls Sports’ legislation targets transgender students
Students walking the halls at Brown High School in 1961. (AJC file photo/Bill Wilson)
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Study: Racially balanced schools didn’t even odds for Black students
Yes, going to college is important but where students go plays less of a role than what they study and how hard, according to a college professor.
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Opinion: Where you go to college is not who you are — or will be
Georgians with college degrees were better able to weather the economic downtrends brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. (AJC file photo / Brant Sanderlin)
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