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Justice February 14, 2024

Lawsuit accuses Cobb County School District of violating teachers’ Constitutional rights

by Rebecca Gaunt The Georgia Association of Educators (GAE) joined a fired elementary school teacher and a currently-employed special education teacher in filing a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Cobb…

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Education January 19, 2024

Students do better and schools are more stable when teachers get mental health support

by Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, University of North Dakota, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] When it comes to mental health at school, typically the focus…

Education December 4, 2023

Weekend events honor memories of two Cobb teachers

Patrick Key Memorial Art Show (all photos by Rebecca Gaunt by Rebecca Gaunt Events honoring the memories of Hendricks Elementary School art teacher Patrick Key, who died of COVID-19 in…

Education November 3, 2023

Texas tried to fix its teacher shortage by lowering requirements − the result was more new teachers, but at lower salaries

by Sarah Guthery, University of Oklahoma and Lauren P. Bailes, University of Delaware, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Facing persistent teacher shortages, Texas in 2001…

Opinion November 3, 2023

Bookman: Turning teachers into guns for hire an absurd answer to school shootings

by Jay Bookman, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] November 2, 2023 Lt. Gov. Burt Jones came up with a helluva idea the other…

Education July 1, 2023

KSU-Georgia Aquarium partnership takes teachers from rivers to reefs

[This article by Thomas Hartwell was first published on the Kennesaw State University website, republished with permission] KENNESAW, Ga. | Jun 30, 2023 A new partnership between Kennesaw State University…

Education May 2, 2023

Math teachers hold a bias against girls when the teachers think gender equality has been achieved

by Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, University of Southern California; Ian Thacker, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and Joseph Cimpian, New York University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished…

Education February 16, 2023

Is it time for teachers to get a raise?

by Michael Addonizio, Wayne State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In his 2023 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden called for public…

Race and Racism December 8, 2022

White teachers often talk about Black students in racially coded ways

by Rowhea Elmesky, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and Olivia Marcucci, Johns Hopkins University [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] When a…

Education October 2, 2022

‘There’s only so far I can take them’ – why teachers give up on struggling students who don’t do their homework

by Jessica Calarco, Indiana University and Ilana Horn, Vanderbilt University [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Whenever “Gina,” a fifth grader at a suburban public school…

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Government & Politics May 24, 2025

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