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A submission by Alisa Schultz, an assistant clinical professor, and Holly Kaplan, a clinical professor in the University of Georgia Speech and Hearing Clinic, has been recognized as a 2014 Meritorious Poster by the Convention Program Committee of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).

UGA alumnus and award-winning Georgia educator Ian Altman (AB '04, MED '06) posts a blog in the August 14 *Washington Post* listing "seven things teachers are sick of hearing from school reformers."

"Schools are becoming safer and safer for kids," says Katherine Raczynski, director of the Safe and Welcoming Schools Project in UGA's College of Education in an August 10 Athens Banner-Herald story on a decrease in numbers of bullying and school violence incidents.

The culture of accountability pressured school personnel to engage in blatantly unethical practices to create the appearance of learning, writes Distinguished Research Professor Peter Smagorinsky in an invited op-ed in the August 10 Atlanta Journal Constitution.

University of Georgia Distinguished Research Professor Peter Smagorinsky writes a response to fellow academic Rick Diguette's recent essay on how ill prepared college freshmen are in writing in the July 28 issue of the _Atlanta Journal Constitution's_ "Get Schooled" blog.

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.