Georgia
News, analysis, and opinion about K-12 education in Georgia
States
Georgia District Pledges Student Gains to Win Flexibility
Gwinnett Co. contract eases some state rules, sets achievement goals.
Standards & Accountability
Ga. District's Fiasco Prompting Reforms
Dismayed by a school district's loss of accreditation because of its former school board's behavior, business leaders, educators, and other experts across Georgia have worked for months to craft recommendations for avoiding such disasters in the future.
English Learners
Screening Students Proves to Be Crucial
Determining where an English-language learner should be placed at the time of enrollment—and when the student should be moved—is a key part of assuring student success.
Standards & Accountability
Second Ga. District Now Under Cloud
Three months after the Clayton County school district lost its accreditation, another Georgia district is facing the same fate.
Teaching Profession
Standards for Teacher Evaluation Mulled
With the pressure on to increase student learning, Georgia and Idaho states are in the process of overhauling what analysts say is among the most neglected pieces of the teacher-quality continuum: evaluation.
School & District Management
Ga. Chief Will Brave War of Wits, Words
Georgia’s education system could certainly use a break from some of its critics, especially after a summer’s worth of mandatory classes for 82,000 students in grades 5 and 9 who failed controversial assessment exams last school year.
Standards & Accountability
Loss of Accreditation Rocks Georgia District
The decision by an accrediting agency could complicate everything from students’ college applications to teachers’ continuing education credits.
Standards & Accountability
State Testing Mandates Swell Summer School Ranks
Students in a number of states often end up attending summer school programs because they didn’t meet academic standards set by the state.
School Choice & Charters
Charters Offered Support in Georgia
Though legislation that would have changed how to pay for education in Georgia failed to pass, lawmakers recently approved bills aimed at giving charter schools some financial help and easing some of the barriers to the approval of new charters.
School & District Management
A Local Feud Proves Toxic
Facing the loss of accreditation, a troubled Georgia school district struggles with the legacy of its fractious, dysfunctional board.
Teaching
Learning Essentials
The Core Knowledge approach prizes content across the disciplines, bucking a trend toward a narrower, skills-based approach to learning.
School & District Management
Loss of Accreditation Looming in Georgia for Troubled District
The troubled Clayton County, Ga., school district is now on the brink of being the first school system in nearly four decades to lose its accreditation.
Equity & Diversity
News in Brief
Ga. District Under Fire for Plan to Separate Students by Gender
Students in all regular public schools in Greene County, Ga., will be separated by gender starting next fall, a move educators hope will improve rock-bottom test scores and reduce teen-pregnancy and discipline rates in the small, rural system.
School & District Management
Managers Help Principals Balance Time
A national project aimed at improving school leaders’ effectiveness is seeking to change that situation by supporting the hiring of “school administration managers” in schools.