ATLANTA – Jasmine Davis, a senior at Frederick Douglass High School, has been named to State School Superintendent Dr. John D. Barge’s 2011-12 Student Advisory Council. Davis is among fifty students from across the state appointed to the council, scheduled to meet twice throughout the school year to advise Dr. Barge and the Georgia Department of […]
Fifteen APS schools earned Title 1 Distinguished Schools awards and $43,598 in award money from the Georgia Department of Education for their academic performance during the 2009-2010 school year. The winning schools achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in terms of their student academic performance as measured by standardized tests for at least three consecutive years. Those […]
High school Advanced Placement (AP) teachers gathered Sept. 14 at the Dean Rusk Building for an informative workshop that instilled the value of using data to inform instruction and effective AP course planning to increase student achievement. Rebecca Chambers, of the Georgia Department of Education, served as the keynote speaker who provided a plethora of […]
If you’re an APS student or know someone who is, Georgia Schools Superintendent Brad Bryant is on the lookout for members for his 2010-2011 Student Advisory Council. Here’s what they do … The members of the Student Advisory Council meet three times during the school year with the State School Superintendent to discuss how decisions […]
Congratulations are in order for Inman Middle School sixth-grader Tessa Szalkowski (pictured, above left) who finished sixth in the Metro RESA (greater Atlanta) division of the Georgia Department of Education’s Young Georgia Authors competition with her Claude Monet-inspired poem, “Femmes au Jardin” (“Women in the Garden”). In the video above, Szalkowski discusses the inspiration for the poem […]
The Georgia Department of Education’s Move on When Ready program is a dual-enrollment opportunity for students to attend a postsecondary institution full-time during their junior and/or senior year of high school. Students will receive high school credit simultaneously while attending college classes on the collge campus full-time. Approved college online classes can be taken that […]
Georgia is one of just 15 states to show significant improvement in eighth-grade mathematics, according to national test results released today. The information came in a press release from the Georgia Department of Education. Here’s the most impressive part … Georgia is one of 15 states that shows statistically-significant improvement on the Mathematics NAEP when […]
Inman Middle School seventh-grade teacher Pam Andrews has been selected to serve on the 2009-10 Superintendent’s Teacher Advisory Council. In a letter to Ms. Andrews announcing the selection, Georgia Department of Education Superintendent Kathy Cox cited the teacher’s expertise and commitment to help students achieve academically. “I greatly value the ideas and opinions of classroom […]