Last Thursday, Savannah native Antwan Patton, better known as Big Boi from Grammy-winning hip hop group Outkast, took the stage at the Civic Center.

  Amidst ongoing discussions of progress, growth and economic development in Chatham County, one topic rarely mentioned as a potential obstacle is that of illiteracy. However, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education, Chatham County's illiteracy rate remained near 15% as of 2003, and adults with low level reading skills could be as many as one in four in the state. The effect of dealing with literacy issues in ...

In mid-August, thousands of new students at Armstrong Atlantic State University began their first classes ever at the southside Savannah state university, as did at least one professor. One night a week, Dr. Linda Bleicken is teaching a graduate level course in the Masters of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Program.

As college students return to campuses across the country this month, more of those students are armed forces veterans thanks to a change in the GI Bill last month that improves benefits and makes secondary education more attainable for those who have chosen to serve their country.

To keep pace with rapid changes in technology and in the American economy, the Savannah College of Art & Design has added two buzzworthy new degree programs that it says are the first of their kind in the nation.

"We're just a different type of educational facility," says Savannah Technical College president Kathy S. Love. "Not everyone is interested in getting a liberal arts degree, or sitting in a classroom listening to a lecture."

College is a first taste of independence for many of us. Mobility is undoubtedly part of that independence, though many who come to Savannah will be experiencing it without a car. Whether that choice is a commitment to reduce individual environmental impact, or one of economic necessity, it can be a challenge in a system set up with cars and not much else in mind.

Paper airplanes might not be the first thing that comes to mind in conversations about inspiring education, but a local group hopes the next Amelia Earhart will discover a passion for flight while creasing of a sheet of paper.

It's a typical college classroom: casually but fashionably dressed students, joking with classmates, showing their professor what they've learned.

As students return to schools across Chatham County this week, it marks the culmination of two things: months of back-to-school sale advertising and an ongoing debate over the effectiveness of disciplinary policies in place at the Savannah Chatham County Public School System.

Semaj Harvey will be awarded his high school diploma soon. It’s an event the Groves High School senior is wholeheartedly looking forward to. Harvey plans to study business administration in college, and his goal is to be a real estate broker. "It’s kind of exciting," he says modestly. Today, it’s hard to imagine that this handsome, intelligent young man was once at risk of failing in school. He seems so confident, so ...

There may be bright spots in the nation’s economic outlook, but the Savannah-Chatham school board doesn’t see any.

One of the most important yet contentious aspects of education is discipline. You’ve got to have it, or chaos reigns in the classrooms and nobody learns. Yet when it’s enacted, critics rise up to protest that it’s meted out unfairly, inconsistently or too harshly.