RALEIGH (April 10, 2024) – Sara Scanlon feels “steadily increasing pressure” to increase graduation rates among her students – whether they’ve mastered the material or not. In our latest installment of Teachers Talk, Scanlon – a high-school math teacher in Wake County in her 12th year of teaching – talks about the frustrations that creates… READ MORE
Teachers Talk: ‘We deserve a livable wage’
CONCORD (April 4, 2024) – To Natalia Mejia, teachers should be treated like the professionals they are. In the latest installment of our Teachers Talk series, the ESL teacher at C.C. Griffin STEM Magnet Middle School and NCCAT Empower NC Beginning Teacher of the Year notes how North Carolina ranked 34th in average teacher pay… READ MORE
Brad Wilson: A workforce pipeline
RALEIGH (April 4, 2024) – If you don’t see a connection between investment in public education and North Carolina’s economy, take it from someone who has. “Public education is critically important for workforce development,” Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC CEO Emeritus Brad Wilson says in the accompanying video. Wilson shares how he worked with… READ MORE
Legislative epiphany: Teacher pay hasn’t kept up
RALEIGH (March 28, 2024) – A state House committee acknowledged this week what was painfully clear even two years ago: North Carolina’s pay for teachers hasn’t kept up with inflation. The first words of the House Select Committee on Education Reform’s findings for the “short” session of the General Assembly that begins next month note… READ MORE
The Assembly: Decades After a Scandal, North Carolina Places a Big Bet
This story was first published by The Assembly, a statewide digital magazine in North Carolina. UNC System President Bill Friday scaled back basketball after players shaved points. Now a gambling executive sits on UNC Chapel Hill’s board and the state is all in on sports betting. By Steve Riley and John Drescher March 25, 2024… READ MORE
UNC-CH chancellor search launches
CHAPEL HILL (March 23, 2024) – Here we go: The search “advisory” committee for a new chancellor at UNC Chapel Hill met for the first time Thursday under a policy that decidedly shifts control of the process to the UNC System Office. “Good leadership matters profoundly to the faculty, to the staff, to the students… READ MORE
Some March Madness math
By David Rice Executive Director, Public Ed Works WINCHESTER, Va. (March 23, 2024) – The following is an exchange this week between my high school English teacher and my high school math teacher. I still recall how the math (trig) teacher labeled points on a circle with the letters of his daughter’s name. And I… READ MORE
Thorp and Goldstein: To rebuild public confidence, focus on teaching
By Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein CHAPEL HILL (March 13, 2024) – Much has been written about how confidence in higher education has plummeted. As devastating as they are, the surveys cited showing this crisis of confidence predate the disastrous events in December when three prominent and accomplished college presidents were ambushed in Congress about… READ MORE
The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credential, and Connections
By Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (March 13, 2024) – Despite the ivory tower stereotype, American universities are marked by their embrace of pragmatic education. We’re the country that invented land-grant colleges devoted to “the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes,” as the lovely prose of the 1862 Morrill Act commanded. We’re a country… READ MORE
‘A teacher pay mess in North Carolina’
KERNERSVILLE (March 6, 2024) – Stephanie Wallace is one masterful teacher. Wallace, who teaches English and Teacher Cadets at East Forsyth High School, has an amazing 180 former students who are teaching in classrooms across North Carolina, and several in other states. “Truly a work of the heart,” she calls it. A former NC Teaching… READ MORE
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