Perspective Perspective | ‘Competitive pay’ essential to expanding corps of teachers by Ferrel Guillory | January 24, 2020 In the “consent order’’ he issued this week, Superior Court Judge W. David Lee instructed state education officials “to work...
Perspective Perspective | Wrong time in history to cut back on history by Ferrel Guillory | January 17, 2020 With history-laden news breaking out all over, North Carolina authorities have picked an inauspicious moment to reduce American history courses...
Perspective Perspective | Still awaiting an all-out assault on high-poverty schools by Ferrel Guillory | January 10, 2020 In mid-July 2017, on the 20th anniversary of the state Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in the long-running Leandro case, I...
Perspective Perspective | An uncommon week in the great education debate by Ferrel Guillory | December 13, 2019 What a week. And I’m not even talking about the U.S. House drafting articles of impeachment of the president of...
Perspective Perspective | Social media and the First Amendment meet in the classroom by Ferrel Guillory | December 6, 2019 The year 2019 featured a series of stirring instances of teachers and high school students stepping out of their classrooms...
Perspective Perspective | Teachers as a fulcrum in the politics of states by Ferrel Guillory | November 22, 2019 In North Carolina, candidate filing for state offices in the 2020 elections opens on the Monday after Thanksgiving. In reality,...
Perspective Perspective | Fewer teenage boys playing under Friday night lights by Ferrel Guillory | November 15, 2019 The Maiden High School football Blue Devils made a two-photo appearance Sunday on the front page of The New York...
Perspective Perspective | Power struggle leaves state’s education effort unresolved by Ferrel Guillory | November 8, 2019 The elections that took place a year ago this week practically predestined a contentious, out-of-the-ordinary session of the General Assembly...
Perspective Perspective | Education in a South ‘divided by design’ by Ferrel Guillory | November 1, 2019 “Race remains the issue that no one wants to address, even though it permeates almost every aspect of society —...
Perspective Perspective | A single letter grade doesn’t measure up by Ferrel Guillory | October 25, 2019 The release of A-to-F school performance grades has become an annual marker in North Carolina education. Now the draft consensus...
Perspective Perspective | An education summit made waves, now barely ripples by Ferrel Guillory | October 11, 2019 It was a gathering of political leadership hardly imaginable today. Thirty years ago, then-President George H.W. Bush spent two days...
Perspective Perspective | Impeachment inquiry as a ‘teachable moment’ by Ferrel Guillory | October 4, 2019 The U.S. House opened a new chapter in American history when it decided to pursue an inquiry into whether to...
