Recent Stories
Jeff Meadors: Performance flags give needed direction for educational improvement
Georgia's College & Career Ready Performance Index highlights performance flags.
Jeff Meadors: Is Common Core all it's cracked up to be?
While many consider Common Core State Standards a national movement, opposition mounts.
Jeff Meadors: New accountability standards put burden on teachers
Accountability typically translates into more work for classroom teachers, so much so that many effective teachers now work in private, home-school and charter settings.
Jeff Meadors: STEM Institute matches student skills with workplace needs
Can public school leaders hatch innovations for students within minimum competency guidelines set by the state?
Jeff Meadors: Thatcher also left her stamp on education
Margareet Thatcher left her mark on public education, especially higher ed.
Jeff Meadors: Schools should consider blend of budgeting tactics
is much sound and even more fury over public school budgets, and it signifies something.
Jeff Meadors: Schools rise and fall on leadership
Down Ga. Highway 36 toward Jackson, beyond the old Meadors home place, stand schools of personal interest to me.
Jeff Meadors: A primer on dual enrollment
Dual enrollment represents public school choice at its very best for Georgia's high school juniors and seniors.
Jeff Meadors: Taxpayers deserve say in school boards, superintendents
School districts must sweat more at the planning table, possibly zero-basing budgets, to rebuild trust following a decade littered with indictments, incarcerations, embezzlement, cheating, affairs, nepotism and face lifts.
Jeff Meadors: Shining examples of academic achievement
Here are some shining examples from Rockdale and Newton county schools.