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- The Saturday School has been in operation in the Department of Early Childhood Education for 38 years (since 1975).
- Reading Recovery® professionals affiliated with the university and college served 4,000 Reading Recovery students and 16,988 non-Reading Recovery students last year.
- The Best Practices Training Initiative has brought over 18 million dollars to Georgia State University since it began in 1996 .
- The Lanette L. Suttles Child Development Center and the Capitol Hill Child Enrichment Center are both nationally accredited and have over 331 years of teaching experience on its current staff.
- The retention rate for Bachelor of Science alumni who have been teaching in Georgia for 3-5 years is 91 percent.
- The Department of Counseling and Psychological Services counseling programs are ranked 4th in faculty productivity by U.S. News and World Report.
- The Department's Counseling Programs were ranked 4th in scholarly productivity nationally by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
- The school psychology program is ranked 7th nationally in faculty productivity by Division 16 of the American Psychological Association.
- The Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic sees over 430 clients each year and that clinic services are offered at no cost to Georgia State students, faculty and staff.
- Middle-Secondary faculty sponsor the Model United Nations Conference annually with nearly 400 high school students and their teachers in attendance.
- The college's new Urban Literacy Clinic served 365 children in 2007 from communities in Atlanta and established a library of over 1,200 books for children.
- Middle-Secondary and Instructional Technology faculty worked with Barrow County Schools, the first school system in the U.S. to be connected with Internet2.
- The Department of Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Mathematics Education Unit is home to the Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, founded in January 2008 by Georgia State faculty.
- The TEEMS English Education M.A.T. degree program received the Distinguished Program in Teacher Education Award from the Georgia Association of Teacher Educators.
- After-School All-Stars provides academic and extracurricular activities for 2,000 children in 9 Atlanta Public Schools.
- Our sports administration graduates have obtained career positions with the Atlanta Falcons, San Antonio Spurs, USA Track and Field, Reebok and many other sports businesses.
- Alumni of our sports medicine program are on the sports medicine staff for organizations such as NASCAR, the NFL and the WNBA.
- The Principals Center at Georgia State was founded in 1984 and provides professional development to principals in Georgia.
- Over 120 high schools students take college courses at Georgia State as part of the Early College High School Initiative.
- The College of Education offers 54 degree programs which include bachelor's, master's specialist in education and doctoral programs.
- The College of Education enrolls about 3,000students a year and prepares approximately 500 teachers annually.
- The College of Education offers four online degree programs through Georgia OnMyLine - www.georgiaonmyline.org
- COE faculty offer mentoring to veteran and new teachers in 20 metro-Atlanta schools, as part of the Professional Development Schools Initiative.
- The COE Office of International Programs offers study abroad programs to China, England and Turkey.
- The College of Education has received over $11 million in external funding this year.