Education

30-Plus Countries Represented at Atlanta International School’s Worldfest

Attendees sampled food and enjoyed cultural offerings from more than 30 countries at the Atlanta International School’s Worldfest, an annual on-campus event aimed at celebrating its diverse community. The Oct. 28 event organized the world in stalls, with food being the main attraction for parents, students and friends of the AIS community. Many consulates were Read more

GSU Center Improving Access to Language Instruction Sees Grant Renewed

A Georgia State University center that helps improve equitable access to world-language instruction has had its funding renewed for the next four years. The Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research, or CULTR, will see $640,000 disbursed by the U.S. Department of Education from 2018 through 2022. CULTR is one of 16 National Foreign Language Read more

Israeli CDC Director Eyes Deeper Health Ties During Atlanta Visit

The director of Israel’s Centers for Disease Control visited her counterpart in Atlanta Oct. 23 during a trip aimed at solidifying connections between the two organizations. Tamar Shohat met with U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield as she sought to “absorb” new knowledge and innovations while leading a two-person delegation. The Israel CDC Read more

Q&A: Why Korean is Such a Critical Language

Editor’s note: As the state’s military academy, the University of North Georgia offers Korean language at various levels in hopes of inspiring some students and cadets to take their study on to fluency. The language has been designated as “critical” by the U.S. Department of Defense, meaning that it’s eligible to receive increased government funding Read more

The University Consortium for Liberia Focused on Early Childhood Ed

The University Consortium for Liberia‘s annual scholarship fundraiser and education forum held at Georgia State University on Oct. 9 focused this year on early childhood education in the West African nation. The education of children in the country’s elementary grades has been affected negatively by a combination of factors including the ebola crisis in 2014-15, Read more

Q&A: How Atlanta’s Only Dutch School Plans for the Future

Editor’s note: The Netherlands-American Chamber of Commerce Southeast, based in Atlanta, publishes a monthly interview spotlighting one of its members. This month, the organization caught up with Jiska van Ede, director of De Molenwiek, the only Dutch school in metro Atlanta. The interview below has been lightly edited for clarity and length and is reprinted with Read more

Georgia State, Tech Win Prestigious International Education Grants

For years, Atlanta has enjoyed an embarrassment of riches when it comes to university research on international business education. That trend is set to continue thanks to revelation that both Georgia State University and Georgia Institute of Technology have once again won prestigious federal CIBER grants. The U.S. Department of Education grants establish and maintain Read more

Georgia State and Georgia Tech Receive $2.5 Million Grant for Atlanta Global Studies Center

The U.S. Education Department has awarded a $2.25 million grant to Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology jointly for an Atlanta Global Studies Center. The center is to focus on research and instruction for student populations underrepresented in international and advanced language studies. It is to provide specialized instruction in international education Read more

Northern Ireland Delegation in Atlanta to Honor Good Friday Agreement and to Create New Ties

Twenty years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 between the British and Irish governments and among eight Northern Ireland political parties, the violence and killings, which marked the period known as the “Troubles,” apparently is over. While undercurrents of decades old enmity between Protestants and Catholics may still exist, a delegation Read more

Emory Professor’s 80th Birthday Celebrated Appropriately at the ‘Infinite Energy Center’ in Duluth

To celebrate his 80th birthday, Jagdish Sheth‘s family collected at the Infinite Energy Center in Duluth the evening of Sept. 1. “Celebrating birthdays of 80-year-olds is an Indian tradition,” Rajen Sheth, Professor Sheth’s son, told Global Atlanta. “Not all Indians make it to that age.” Sheth family members traveled from both near and far to Read more

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