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.
Jeff Meadors: Dual enrollment as an economic driver
Colorado is leveraging dual enrollment to improve its workforce.
Jeff Meadors: Trigger legislation could put power in the hands of teachers, parents
The trigger would allow a majority of a public school households or teachers and instructional staff at a given school to demand consideration of their petition to convert a failing school to charter status.
Jeff Meadors: HB 397 lets the sun shine in
Georgia Sunshine Laws have been ambiguous, but Georgia's House Bill 397 parts some clouds.
Jeff Meadors: Education traditionalists have a lot to learn from the charter movement
Is free market enterprise and competition destabilizing to education traditionalists?
Jeff Meadors: Guiding our students toward college, career readiness
The current issue of Fortune Magazine profiles the 100 Best Companies to Work For and 78 of them need to fill 67,000 jobs. Will Georgians fill any of those spots?
Jeff Meadors: What factors determine success for students?
In "How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character," Paul Tough argues that medicine explains why children who grow up in dysfunctional environments find it hard to concentrate.