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New study charts learning declines among students due to pandemic By CANDY WAYLOCK candy@appenmedia.com
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A rendering shows plans for the upcoming Campus 244 development on Perimeter Center Parkway. The first phase of the project’s construction involves a “reimagining” of the former Gold Kist headquarters.
Campus 244 grows by three DUNWOODY, Ga. — The developers behind Campus 244, Dunwoody’s new mixed-use development on Perimeter Center Parkway, have announced three new businesses coming to the project. Transportation logistics company Transportation Insight, staffing company Insight Global and restaurant CT Can-
tina & Taqueria are the latest businesses to sign on for a space in Campus 244. That brings the project to more than 80 percent leased, according to co-developer RocaPoint Partners. Transportation Insight and Insight Global have both signed long-term leases for portions of the 12-acre de-
velopment’s 400,000 square foot office building. The companies will bring on employees to the space in late 2023. CT Cantina’s 9,000 square foot restaurant will spill out onto Campus 244’s central greenspace and include an “expansive”
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ATLANTA — Younger students may have been less vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus, but they were hit hard academically, according to a recent Georgia State University report. The study, conducted by the Metro Atlanta Policy Lab for Education, reviewed data from three area school districts, including Fulton County Schools, to measure student achievement in math and reading over the course of the two-year-long pandemic. MAPLE has been collecting this data from the three districts since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. It released its first findings in spring 2021 which looked at data in the first year of the pandemic. The recent update states, “Student Achievement Growth During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” found many students have begun to recover
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