On a warm summer morning, John Gossett, president of McDowell Technical Community College, bounded out of his administrative building to welcome us to the college. Gossett has served McDowell Tech in a variety of roles since 2012. On July 1,...
Mark Poarch has been president of Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute (CCC&TI) since the spring of 2016. Poarch was executive vice president of the college as Caldwell County tried to climb out of the last great recession, so he...
This data summary analyzes trends in the NC District Responses to COVID-19 School Closures database completed on June 5, 2020, which is an update of the database first published on April 23, 2020. In developing the database, researchers first searched...
Welcome to our monthly feature on EducationNC called the NC STEM ScoreCard, written in partnership with the NC Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Center (SMT) and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The previous edition of the STEM ScoreCard featuring MCNC can...
Black Lives Matter. During this time, student voices matter tremendously as they watch and try to understand the appalling deaths of Black men and women. They are trying to understand their place in history and forming their view of the world and...
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The State Board of Education meets virtually today at 1:30. Here is the agenda. They will take up approval of contracts over $500K, teacher compensation and advanced teaching roles, and Superintendent Mark Johnson will present and seek approval on a 2020-21 K-3 reading diagnostic plan.
John Gossett is transitioning today from being president at McDowell Technical Community College to being president of Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College. In case you missed them up above, Nation and Alli’s stories from the road continue.
The AAP strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with a goal of having students physically present in school....
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