Education

On Jan. 25, Governor Brian Kemp delivered his State of the State address, during which he promised an additional pay raise for Georgia’s state and university employees and public school teachers on top of pay raises given out during his first term.

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) recently announced four new schools to be created to advance innovative education for students.

Citing an acute need for teachers and a decline in enrollment in college education programs, the federal department of education is granting $9.

This year, the Captain Planet Foundation (CPF) is celebrating 10 years of its Project Learning Garden (PLG) initiative – a holistic program that provides more than 570 schools in 41 states with resources to establish garden-based learning programs – by launching a special Rejuvenation Grant.

During its annual conference in August, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) introduced a newly established scholarship fund in honor of the late, beloved Atlanta journalist Jovita Moore.

The Biden Administration recently announced that $10,000 in student loan debt would be forgiven per borrower earning less than $125,000 per single-family home or $250,000 per couple.

Following the launch of SCAD’s sneaker design minor this past spring, the school has partnered with Wish founder Lauren Amos to create the Wish Atlanta Sneaker Design Scholarship.

As time quickly ticks down until the first day of school, pressure rises for the metro Atlanta districts to fill their outstanding teacher vacancies.

Whether you’re ready or not, our beloved summer days are coming to an end and back-to-school season is creeping around the corner.

It’s never too early to start planning for the future and lucky for you, many businesses are hiring summer interns! LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Indeed and other resources are posting new opportunities every day.

The Savannah College of Art and Design is launching the first-ever sneaker design minor, designed to further enhance professional credentials and propel graduates to the top of the growing, lucrative field.

The sudden onset of Omicron cases across the nation has delayed the return to in-person school for many, and parents are once again faced with the challenges of at-home learning.

In a matter of weeks, almost all students across the region will be back in class — truly, in class.

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As summer approaches, parents may look to help their students catch up from days at home due to COVID.

Schools are almost out for the summer and it’s looking like 2021 has several in-person camps returning for kids and teenagers in the Atlanta area.

The famous MLB player Hank Aaron, who played for the Atlanta Braves from 1954 to 1974, will soon be the name of a local high school.

Last week, the Atlanta School Board approved raises for all 6,200 employees.

The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) recently announced that there will not be an increase in tuition rates for the 2021-2022 academic year.

Don’t think of sewage as waste, says environmental engineer and 2015 MacArthur fellow Kartik Chandran.

Maybe you can tell fact from fiction when it comes to what you see online, but can your kids? Your parents? Grandparents?We can go all day, but the viral nature of disproven conspiracy theories and dangerous misinformation tells us that media literacy is lacking for many.

Middle and high school students across America recently participated in C-SPAN’s 17th annual national StudentCam competition, with two students from The Davis Academy in Atlanta walking away winners.

Children’s Museum of Atlanta has launched Homeschool Days, a series of virtual programming for kids.

As the fall semester begins for Georgia colleges, thousands of students and teachers return to campuses for in-person classes.

The Chronicle of Higher Education estimates 5 million students will be in-person at colleges this fall.

Having demonstrated outstanding leadership skills in their schools and communities, two local high school seniors, Audrey McNeal (Kennesaw) and Sriraksha Sundararaj (Marietta) received the 2020 Claes Nobel Future Female Leader Scholarship by the National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS).

COVID-19 left millions of Americans furloughed or jobless, and internship programs have been affected, too.

Now that summer is in full swing, the University System of Georgia (and its 26 institutions) is planning ahead and preparing for the fall semester and what that would look like amid COVID-19.

Created as space to help parents educate children on key community issues, CMA Town Square: Let’s Talk About …, was launched by the Children’s Museum of Atlanta.

Educate yourself. I’ve seen this advice across my social feed countless times in the past few weeks and I agree, educating yourself about racism is key to stopping it. As a parent, guardian or teacher, how does that translate to young children?