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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.

This is Experience UGA, a new program that brings students from the Clarke County School District to campus for activities that reinforce what they're learning at school while exposing them to college life.

Three doctoral students in the College of Education's Department of Educational Psychology—Ashley Dubin, Tori Foster and Christina Simmons—have received internal and external awards for their scholarship.

Gwinnett County School Superintendent J. Alvin Wilbanks (BSED, '64 MED '68) writes an essay in the June 16 Atlanta Journal Constitution about the importance of leadership and collective responsibility in raising student achievement.

Distinguished Research Professor of Language and Literacy Education Peter Smagorinsky writes a response to the new National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) Teacher Prep Review.