Maureen Downey

Wade Vandervort Kimberly Villarreal Thaggard, PhD, regional director for iTeach, leads a seminar at Cashman Middle School on alternative

In her fifth year of teaching, Holly Witcher decided she was done with the profession she had dreamed about as a child when she sat her Barbie dolls at desks and read to them.

In the internet's infancy, I was among The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporters assigned to write a weekly column called “Netwatch” where we'd find and recommend newly emerging websites to readers.

Schools can't break kids of their cellphone attachment, as Marietta City Schools is trying with a new tough policy, without the help of parents.

Some student complaints are inevitable, and schools will need parent cooperation, just as they do to counter chronic absenteeism, bullying, drug use or any other worrying student behavior.

Many issues in education deserve our time, attention and contemplation. For instance, we ought to be talking about math instruction and what it

Many issues in education deserve our time, attention and contemplation. For instance, we ought to be talking about math instruction and what it requires today to prepare kids for tech jobs in the age of artificial intelligence. We ought to be discussing the fairness of expecting schools to fix every social ill from bullying to vaping. And we need to get serious about the decline in enrollment in teacher prep programs and what that means for school staffing.

Georgia's new voucher law puts us in league with such states as Mississippi, Louisiana and Oklahoma. That's not such great company to keep.

In focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic's damage to school-age children, did we overlook the disruptions and setbacks experienced by kids who were babies during the shutdowns?

The upcoming book “Rethinking College” highlights dozens of young people who found successful and fulfilling careers outside the usual options.