Education
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Georgia Milestone Testing System Replaces the CRCT
The Georgia Milestone testing system is replacing the CRCT. You would think that a replacement means "better, faster, more efficient..." but that isn't exactly the case.
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New HOPE Scholarship Qualifications Tougher on High School Students
ATHENS, GA- New HOPE requirements mean a more rigorous schedule for high school students. Learn more about how these new standards will affect your child in coming years.
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Georgia Wins Early Childhood Education Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zoc0M4UnHI&feature=youtu.be ATHENS, GA – Georgia elementary schools will see changes to their early education programs starting this year. Georgia is a winner of a nationwide education grant to help develop early childhood education across the state. Georgia is one of six states to be awarded the Race to the Top…
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Local Principal Seeks to Develop Students, Not Criminals
ATHENS, GA- Local principal says he's doing everything he can to keep his students behind books instead of behind bars.
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GED Changes Could Make the Test Tougher
Reported by Tiffany Buck Thirty percent of students in Clarke County drop out of high school. Their only hope to make a better life for themselves was taking the GED, and now even that will be tougher. The hope is that these changes will make the GED less of an…
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National Budget Cuts Carry Over to Local Budgets
Wright Gazaway takes a look at how these budget cuts will affect Georgia.
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Obama Wants to Implement Universal Pre-K
-Athens,Ga By: Alex Boswell Amy Kay is the director of the McPhaul Children’s Center. Their educational philosophy reflects that every child is different and has their own unique personality, development and learning style. THey hope to maintain this philosophy even with President Obama’s plan to implement Universal Pre-K. “There is…
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UGA Professors Receive More Than $1 Million For Research
Professors Richard Dluhy, Stephen Tompkins and Ralph Tripp have been granted one-point-one million dollars to study methods that would better predict and detect emerging influenza strains. With new technology, they will be able to differentiate between different strands of the virus in minutes. This would allow researchers to identify a…
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UGA Math Research Wins Two Awards
By: Brittany Chenelle ATHENS, GA – Ever wonder what makes mathematics difficult for some students to learn? Two UGA College of Education researchers are determined to find out.  Mathematics education professors AnnaMarie Conner and Jessica Bishop have received two CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation. The awards total…