The state’s highest court will soon decide whether a man convicted of killing his infant son more than 20 years ago will get a new trial.The case involves the controversial medical diagnosis, shaken baby syndrome. In 2003, a Gwinnett County jury convicted Danyel Smith of murdering his two-month-old son, Chandler. The state’s medical examiner ruled the boy’s death a homicide, caused by blunt force trauma. Prosecutors told the jury it was a “shaken baby” case.In April 2024, Smith pleaded ...
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The state’s highest court will soon decide whether a man convicted of killing his infant son more than 20 years ago will get a new trial.The case involves the controversial medical diagnosis, shaken baby syndrome. In 2003, a Gwinnett County jury convicted Danyel Smith of murdering his two-month-old son, Chandler. The state’s medical examiner ruled the boy’s death a homicide, caused by blunt force trauma. Prosecutors told the jury it was a “shaken baby” case.In April 2024, Smith pleaded ...
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Ga. University accused of teaching ‘debunked’ reading methods | Behind the Investigation
For the past 30 years, Georgia State University has run a program for experienced teachers to learn a curriculum called Reading Recovery, which is intended to help children learn how to read.Reading Recovery is one-on-one instruction in the classroom for the lowest performing students in first grade struggling to read. School districts in Georgia and across the country used its teaching methods for decades.Once hailed as one of the most effective intervention models, a study published in the ...
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The state’s highest court will soon decide whether a man convicted of killing his infant son more than 20 years ago will get a new trial.The case involves the controversial medical diagnosis, shaken baby syndrome. In 2003, a Gwinnett County jury convicted Danyel Smith of murdering his two-month-old son, Chandler. The state’s medical examiner ruled the boy’s death a homicide, caused by blunt force trauma. Prosecutors told the jury it was a “shaken baby” case.In April 2024, Smith pleaded ...
