WalletHub.com, a financial planning and advice website, interviewed Professor Deron Boyles for a story highlighting 2020’s best and worst community colleges.

Deron Boyles, professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, wrote a book entitled, “John Dewey’s Imaginative Vision of Teaching: Combining Theory and Practice,” which was published by Myers Education Press.

Clinical Associate Professor Sheryl Cowart Moss has been named a 2020 recipient of the Jim Puckett Outstanding Educator Award.

Congratulations to Virgil Cole, Ed.D. Educational Leadership graduate (Spring 2017). He is now superintendent of the Morgan County Charter School System.

Amanda Lynch (M.Ed. ’20) graduates this spring and was recently named the new assessment coordinator for Fulton County Schools.

Justina Jackson is graduating this spring with her doctorate in research, measurement and statistics, which she earned while juggling life as a wife, a mother and a co-owner of CrossFit EX, a group fitness business in Smyrna, Ga.

The Department of Educational Policy Studies celebrates its Honors Day award recipients for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Congratulations to Justina Jackson for successfully defending her dissertation on April 9.

Kristina Clement defended her dissertation on April 9. The title of her dissertation is “More than Free Speech: Politics, Higher Education and The First Amendment.” 

Yinying Wang, assistant professor in Educational Policy Studies, offers ways of making decisions for educators during the coronavirus pandemic.