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    Iris Mae Welch, left, Barbara Pace Hunt, center, and Myra Elliott, right, are largely unrecognized for the role they played in integrating Georgia's public universities. The author of a book about their sacrifices urges the state to honor the women by creating a statue of them or naming a building for them.
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    OPINION: Honor ‘hidden figures’ of Georgia’s college desegregation ...
    Somewhere between 60% and 70% of the dramatic earnings inequality that began in the mid-'80s in the United States is accounted for by differences in access to and completion of college programs valued in the labor market, according to Georgetown's Center for Education and the Workforce. COVID-19 may impede access to college for many students. Wilfredo Lee / Associated Press
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    Class of COVID-19 may pay career price
    The 19 states which are having high school football seasons proceed as usual gave Donald Trump a mean of 54.73% of the vote, compared to 51.43% in the 14 states that are delaying football season for COVID-19, and just 40.93% for those cancelling fall football, a statistically significant difference
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    OPINION: Football aside, politics isn’t influencing school pandemic...
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    Iris Mae Welch, left, Barbara Pace Hunt, center, and Myra Elliott, right, are largely unrecognized for the role they played in integrating Georgia's public universities. The author of a book about their sacrifices urges the state to honor the women by creating a statue of them or naming a building for them.
    Get Schooled Blog
    OPINION: Honor ‘hidden figures’ of Georgia’s college desegregation ...
    Somewhere between 60% and 70% of the dramatic earnings inequality that began in the mid-'80s in the United States is accounted for by differences in access to and completion of college programs valued in the labor market, according to Georgetown's Center for Education and the Workforce. COVID-19 may impede access to college for many students. Wilfredo Lee / Associated Press
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    Class of COVID-19 may pay career price
    The 19 states which are having high school football seasons proceed as usual gave Donald Trump a mean of 54.73% of the vote, compared to 51.43% in the 14 states that are delaying football season for COVID-19, and just 40.93% for those cancelling fall football, a statistically significant difference
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    OPINION: Football aside, politics isn’t influencing school pandemic...
    Fulton County Schools teachers and children protest the district's plan of returning to face-to-face instruction with a walkout during lunch on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020.
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    Some Fulton teachers urge: Push back timeline for face-to-face classes
    Two education researchers evaluate where America's intense use of testing in schools has led the country, asking, “With an entire generation of students and young adults who have experienced nothing but a focus on testing, how much better is our world?”
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    OPINION: A generation endured test-centric schooling. Did it help?
    In response to questions about how a reopened APS may look, the Atlanta Public Schools superintendent said a hybrid model with a tiered approach – first bringing back early learners, special needs students and ESOL population, and, perhaps, transition grades – is possible.
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    APS parent: What’s the concrete metric for classroom return?
    When millions of students were forced to learn on their own after classrooms were shuttered, an emphasis on curiosity, persistence and making connections proved essential. “As long as you are spoon-fed in the classroom, it doesn’t matter that much. But when you are on your own learning, those skills matter,” said OECD Director for Education and Skills Andreas Schleicher.
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    Spoon-feeding students vs. whetting their appetite for learning
    Superintendent Richard Woods meets with students in Ben Hill County at Fitzgerald High School, his alma mater.
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    School chief: No foolproof pandemic playbook but schools ‘going above...
    The Atlanta-based nonprofit Common Good Atlanta created college classes for people returning to their communities after being incarcerated. Local professors taught the classes and local college students served as teaching assistants.
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    Learning alongside former prisoners, college students find ‘challenge,...
    Brian Cochran (right) and other members of the Tech Students for Life executive committee talk with Alveda King, far left, before her speech at Georgia Tech a year ago.
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    OPINION: All students win in Georgia Tech settlement with group...
    Gov. Brian Kemp is still mulling over whether to exclude educators from the state’s quarantine requirement by adding them to the “critical” workers category, which would then exempt them from the two-week quarantine required of most who come into contact with someone with COVID-19.
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    Teachers as critical workers: Does ‘essential’ mean ensnared?
    State Rep. David Wilkerson, D-Powder Springs, plans to sponsor a bill during the 2021 legislative session to remove the SAT and ACT requirement to earn a Zell Miller Scholarship.
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    Cobb lawmaker: Drop ACT/SAT requirement for Zell Miller Scholarship
    A statue is masked inside a building on the first day of classes Monday, August 17, 2020, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. More of Georgia's public universities are opening for the fall term, trying to balance concern about COVID-19 infections against a mandate for on-campus classes citing financial needs and student desires (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)
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    To combat COVID, Georgia Tech wants students to move to single rooms
    Gwinnett Educators for Equity and Justice and supporters holds signs in July as they marched in front of the Gwinnett County Public School Board building during a rally in Suwanee, Supporters of Gwinnett County Public School teachers and staff marched a little over a mile to raise awareness of their concerns for starting off the school year in-person, instead of online, due to COVID-19.
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    Teacher leader: Pandemic will not last forever. Partnership between...
    A classroom stands empty amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Among the students most at risk from school closures are those with special needs. A parent says micro grants could help in Georgia.
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    OPINION: Give parents resources during pandemic to help kids with...
    Many former students are mourning the death of beloved Georgia band teacher Robert Lawrence. Photo by Elena Webber for Odyssey Media Group of Clarke Central High School.
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    Remembering a great Georgia teacher lost to COVID-19
    07/20/2020 - Suwanee, Georgia - Gwinnett Educators for Equity and Justice and supporters holds signs as they march in front of the Gwinnett County Public School Board building during a rally in Suwanee, Monday, July 20, 2020. Supporters of Gwinnett County Public School teachers and staff marched a little over a mile to raise awareness of their concerns for starting off the school year in-person, instead of online, due to COVID-19. On Monday, Gwinnett County Public School Board announced that it will join most other districts in metro Atlanta and hold classes this fall online-only. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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    You can put away the prep books. The University System of Georgia just announced scores will not be required for students applying to the 26 public campuses next year.
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    Finally: University System of Georgia waives ACT/SAT requirement for...
    08/21/2020 - Milledgeville, Georgia - A Georgia College and State University student wears a face mask while traveling though the campus in Milledgeville, Friday, August 21, 2020. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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