6/5/2020
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State superintendent candidates on the role of students
Every week, we are asking the two candidates for state superintendent of public instruction a question culled from teacher responses to a survey, along with a few additions of our own. This week, we departed from our scheduled questions. Here...
Perspective | Class of 2020 will be ‘better angels of our nature’
The 100,000 or so North Carolina high school students, my oldest grandson among them, in the class of 2020 have had their end-of-grade and graduation customs truncated by the efforts to contain a contagious virus. Even if disappointing to many...
Perspective | A unique partnership but not a unique mission
The friendship between me, Dr. Jenny Billings, chair of academic related courses and English, and Melissa Reid, chair of mathematics, started years ago at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College. I became chair a few years before Melissa did, so it made sense...
The Editor’s Notes
Application are being accepted for the 2020 The Evergreen Prize! This is a prize that recognizes an organization that has a proven track record of supporting low-income students complete college or vocational degrees. Application materials are available here and are being accepted through July 3, 2020.
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Community College Systems to Review Police Training
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How will NC schools reopen? Leaders promise pandemic guidance will come next week.
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Public education job losses in April are already greater than in all of the Great Recession
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