Category: Education
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New NAEP documents Covid-19’s staggering impact on K-12 students, but begs a question: How much worse was damage in rural areas?
One of the stories I was working on late last year, when my wife’s illness forced me to take a hiatus from TIGC, was a deeper dive into the […]
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A first look at some new educational attainment data for Georgia’s counties (it ain’t pretty)
Lately I’ve been wallowing around in about a dozen different datasets and working on at least as many posts without getting any of them finished. I can’t believe I’m […]
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Forget the “two Georgias,” welcome to Massassippi
I can’t remember whether he wrote it or said it, but years ago the legendary Atlanta Constitution editor Bill Shipp opined that if you lifted Metro Atlanta out of […]
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Updating TIGC’s Gwinnett County-South Georgia comparison, Part II: Education
A week or so ago I published a post that looked at South Georgia’s population trends. This was the first of what will likely be four or more posts […]
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Rural Georgia: Doing its part to send Metro Atlanta kids to college
One recurring theme in my Trouble in God’s Country research is that Metro Atlanta is paying the lion’s share of taxes in Georgia while consuming a much smaller portion of […]