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Kristin Sayeski, an assistant professor of communication sciences and special education, has been named editor of TEACHING Exceptional Children (TEC), the peer-reviewed, practitioner-focused journal of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC).

Distinguished Research Professor in Language and Literacy Education, encourages his fellow academics to consider the implications of working only within the echo chamber of journals, conferences and classes in a July 21 article on _Writers Who Care_, a blog published by members of the Commission on Writing Teacher Education, a working group of the Conference on English Educationr Continuing Education

Two College of Education faculty members—Jolie Daigle and Chris Linder—have been elected to the board of directors of The Cottage, Sexual Assault Center and Children's Advocacy Center.

Bob Fecho, a professor and head of the Department of Language and Literacy Education, writes an essay titled, "In Education Change is the Only Constant," to mark the 40th anniversary of the National Writing Project.

The rise of the cell phone is also seen as a contributing factor to helicopter parenting. UGA College of Education professor Richard Mullendore called it "the world's longest umbilical cord" in a June 24 Effingham Herald story.

Christine Rienstra Kiracofe (MA '00, EdD '04) an associate professor at Northern Illinois University in the School of Law and College of Education, was recently featured on the NIU College of Education's website.

The millions of dollars spent in Georgia on student testing could be spent in ways that could have an ameliorative effect on the causes of poverty and thus a beneficial effect on schooling, writes Distinguished Research Professor Peter Smagorinsky in a June 24 essay in the Washington Post.

Bob Fecho, professor and head of the Department of Language and Literacy Education in the College of Education, is featured on UGA's Focus on Faculty feature this week.

Retiring Day School teacher Carol Liberman (BSED '67)UGA has been selected as a finalist to represent the Houston Astros as the Teacher of the Year at the 2014 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Target Field in Minnesota next month, reported the Jewish Herald Voice.

The University of Georgia Archway Partnership's Saturday Academy demonstrate a statistical improvement in school readiness and oral vocabulary skills for all children participating in school readiness classes.