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Could encouraging the use of bikes and public transit help give kids a more flexible morning schedule? (Steve Schaefer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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Opinion: Wake up Atlanta Public Schools to potential of public transit, biking
Education analysts, philanthropists and advocates want schools to be reimagined and reinvented post COVID. (Curtis Compton/ccompton@ajc.com)
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Teachers want to reset. Reformers want to reinvent
The University System of Georgia notified the presidents of state public colleges and universities today that 2022 applicants will have to submit ACT or SAT scores.
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Georgia public campuses will require ACT/SAT next year
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Could encouraging the use of bikes and public transit help give kids a more flexible morning schedule? (Steve Schaefer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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Opinion: Wake up Atlanta Public Schools to potential of public transit, biking
Education analysts, philanthropists and advocates want schools to be reimagined and reinvented post COVID. (Curtis Compton/ccompton@ajc.com)
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Teachers want to reset. Reformers want to reinvent
The University System of Georgia notified the presidents of state public colleges and universities today that 2022 applicants will have to submit ACT or SAT scores.
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Georgia public campuses will require ACT/SAT next year
Author Kelly Corrigan has some advice for newly minted graduages as they go out in the world: "Wherever you go, there will be people, with stories to share and lessons to teach. And it’s easier to know them than you think. Just ask questions." AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Advice to graduates: Just ask questions
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the first charter school law, passed in Minnesota. Today, there are 7,500 charter schools in the United States, enrolling more than 3.3 million students.
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Opinion: Charters met COVID challenges. Will state meet funding challenges?
A 17-year-old receives his Pfizer vaccine from a Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta nurse at the mass vaccination clinic at the Georgia International Convention Center. CONTRIBUTED
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Opinion: Mandate vaccines for Georgia students and staff on public campuses
Teens typically stay up until 10 p.m. or later. To achieve their optimum nine hours, they should sleep until at least 7 a.m., which isn’t possible when classes start 30 minutes later.
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Atlanta wakes sleeping giant with decision to start high school earlier
Despite the fact many colleges are not requiring SAT or ACT scores for admission next year, some students are still planning to take the college admissions exams. Is that a good idea? (Curtis Compton / ccompton@ajc.com)
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Looking for answers on the ACT and SAT
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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Summer school or summer break?
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: Biden outlines education vision with public schools at its core
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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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A sign of why teachers are discouraged
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