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    Augusta University professor Debbie van Tuyll speaks with her students while teaching a communication law and ethics class virtually from her screened in back porch at her residence in Martinez, Georgia Tuesday, September 15, 2020. Van Tuyll is a professor who teaches communications at Augusta University. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2020. She is currently receiving chemotherapy treatments while continuing to virtually teach at the university. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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    College and the coronavirus: Georgia professor balances cancer while...
    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
    Michele Shirley is the interim president of North Georgia Technical College. PHOTO CREDIT: TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF GEORGIA.
    Education
    New leader named for Georgia college after president dies from COVID-19
    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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    Coronavirus and schools: How to get public records
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    Some schools withhold COVID-19 infection information from parents,...
    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.
    Get Schooled Blog
    Some Fulton teachers urge: Push back timeline for face-to-face classes
    An IBM logo is shown at CES 2016 at The Venetian Las Vegas on January 6, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
    Education
    IBM announces $100 million initiative to support Black colleges
    DeKalb school board member Joyce Morley during the board's virtual meeting on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. SCREENSHOT
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    DeKalb school board member denies making racist comments
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