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Teachers Get a Hefty Dose of Biotech at Week-Long Georgia Bio Workshop

The Georgia BioEd Institute’s Summer Biotech Immersion program, sponsored by local biopharma company UCB, provided a laboratory-intensive professional learning experience to eight high school biology/biotechnology teachers on June 4-8, 2018. If funded for summer 2019, the pilot program is intended to become an annual offering for Georgia educators from Georgia Bio, the state’s life sciences industry association.

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Four Ways Large Urban Schools Can Improve School Climate

David White, principal at Burgess Peterson Academy (BPA), an elementary school in Atlanta Public Schools, provides his perspective on social, emotional, and academic development in a large urban setting.

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Georgia State U. Made Its Graduation Rate Jump. How?

The Chronicle recently released a special report that looked at how Georgia State University used big data and analytics as a springboard into rethinking undergraduate education, with remarkable results.

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Boost Childcare Initiative Aims To Help College Student-Parents Graduate

An example of this 2GEN approach would be to allow for college students who have children of their own to have access to quality daycare. This enables the student/parent to know their child is getting a great start on his or her education while allowing the student/parent to focus on their own education.

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More Frequent, Intensive Advising Cranks up Student Engagement

The report found that overall, students who get more time in advising with more in-depth discussions during their advising sessions are more engaged in community college.

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Big Data Could Solve the College-Dropout Problem

Administrators could use data to identify which students are at risk of dropping out and could then intervene to give them additional support.

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WiFi-Equipped School Buses Help Students Get Online

The digital age continues to spark creative developments in education. Wireless gadgets are now commonplace in the typical American classroom. But while technology is helping thousands of students reach new heights in their education, many others are falling behind.

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How Two Georgia Tech Students Came Up With The Common App For Internships

The discrepancy between efforts and results made Bambot and Nathan Dass, a fellow student at Georgia Tech, think about how to minimize the time devoted to a single application by maximizing the possibility to get interviews.

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When a Few Bucks Can Get Students to the Finish Line

A university can and should do things to help students graduate. Until 10 or 15 years ago, American universities and colleges paid a lot of attention to recruiting students, and shockingly little attention to helping them succeed while there.

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Colleges Enter Unusual Partnership to Boost Enrollment, Degrees

Clark Atlanta University and Georgia Piedmont Technical College have collaborated on a multilayered arrangement they say will help aspiring students and current students on both campuses and boost enrollment. The schools hope to have the partnership in place by the fall semester.

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