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Ferrel Guillory

@FerrelGuillory
ferrelg@email.unc.edu

Ferrel Guillory is the Director of the Program in Public Life and Professor of the Practice at the UNC School of Media and Journalism, and the Vice Chairman of EducationNC.

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Perspective | Wrong time in history to cut back on history

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With history-laden news breaking out all over, North Carolina authorities have picked an inauspicious moment to reduce American history courses...

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Perspective | Still awaiting an all-out assault on high-poverty schools

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In mid-July 2017, on the 20th anniversary of the state Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in the long-running Leandro case, I...

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Perspective | An uncommon week in the great education debate

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What a week. And I’m not even talking about the U.S. House drafting articles of impeachment of the president of...

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Perspective | Social media and the First Amendment meet in the classroom

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The year 2019 featured a series of stirring instances of teachers and high school students stepping out of their classrooms...

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Perspective | Teachers as a fulcrum in the politics of states

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In North Carolina, candidate filing for state offices in the 2020 elections opens on the Monday after Thanksgiving. In reality,...

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Perspective | Fewer teenage boys playing under Friday night lights

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The Maiden High School football Blue Devils made a two-photo appearance Sunday on the front page of The New York...

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Perspective | Power struggle leaves state’s education effort unresolved

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The elections that took place a year ago this week practically predestined a contentious, out-of-the-ordinary session of the General Assembly...

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Perspective | Education in a South ‘divided by design’

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“Race remains the issue that no one wants to address, even though it permeates almost every aspect of society —...

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Perspective | A single letter grade doesn’t measure up

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The release of A-to-F school performance grades has become an annual marker in North Carolina education. Now the draft consensus...

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Perspective | An education summit made waves, now barely ripples

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It was a gathering of political leadership hardly imaginable today. Thirty years ago, then-President George H.W. Bush spent two days...

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Perspective | Impeachment inquiry as a ‘teachable moment’

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The U.S. House opened a new chapter in American history when it decided to pursue an inquiry into whether to...

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Perspective | A budgetary impasse in stark red and blue

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Is it all about Medicaid? Is there any way out? Is there no sense of urgency? These questions come to...