Education
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Barrow County Students Show Off Art for National Arts In Education Week
While the arts are celebrated every day at Barrow Art and Sciences Academy, this week is particularly special. It’s National Arts in Education Week, and Mitch Freeman, a 2D art teacher at the academy, has his class creating a collage of patterns to create an optical illusion. “We looked at…
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The PWI Experience: Black Students Building Forms of Community at Georgia’s Flagship Institution
College dropouts have a grip on the U.S. economy, amounting to $6.2 billion in taxpayer money lost after students make the decision to call it quits. A substantial 30.6% of those dropouts are Black students, according to the Education Data Initiative and the American Institute for Research. That’s nearly double the…
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The Person, the Student, the Athlete: Who Comes First in Georgia High Schools?
Corrie Collier, the Atlanta public school assistant athletic director, has his priorities set when it comes to his students, “We care about you as a person first, then we care about you as a student, and then we care about you as an athlete,” he said. The National Football League…
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Underserved and Underwhelmed: Reality of Education Has Changed for Many Georgia Teachers
What was once a highly rewarding career is no longer for some educators. “I taught in the 90’s, throughout the whole 90’s… I had a lot of autonomy when I was teaching,” said Greg Davis, who taught fourth grade for 16 years, and now serves on the Athens-Clarke County…
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Joy Village School Offers New Chances for Local Black Youth
Books focusing on Black history and pride fill the shelves of a library. Along the walls, there are posters about historical Black figures, like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks, and there’s even a Juneteenth flag proudly hung in the center of a classroom. Walking around the Joy Village…
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Study Abroad Is Priceless — Except When It’s Not
Ben Barrett was having a great time studying abroad in Leon, France in the spring of 2020 until he was informed that his program was being canceled due to ongoing outbreaks of COVID-19. He had 24 hours to book a flight back to the U.S. Barrett, a senior at the…
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Justin Bray Brings Bright Things to Books for Keeps
Walking into the Books for Keeps warehouse, you are immediately surrounded by books and more books. Justin Bray, who recently took over as executive director in August, battles with troubling technology to get music started for his volunteers as they sort through the many piles of books laid across tables.…
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault: 60 Years After Making History at UGA
The year 2021 marks the 60th Anniversary of the desegregation of the University of Georgia. An exhibit at the main library on the campus of UGA, honors people like Hamilton Holmes, who passed away on Oct. 26, 1995, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the two students who desegregated UGA in January…
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Winterville Library Makes Noise for Funding With Concert Series
In places filled with books, you usually expect quiet, but not in Winterville. Through the month of October, people in Winterville, Georgia, gathered at the Front Porch Bookstore for a concert, but they weren’t just there for the music. Friends of the Winterville Library, a nonprofit dedicated to raising funds…
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Schools’ Safe Havens: How Fine Arts Programs Inspire, Protect
For students who hate math, struggle with English and find football to be a bore, band class might be the only reason why they come to school — or it might be chorus, drama or ceramics. Fine arts programs in middle and high schools are often a safe haven for…