Featured More skilled workers needed for the jobs of tomorrow: Announcing 5,000 new apprenticeships by Mebane Rash | February 19, 2020 Before he arrived at the Hunt Library on Centennial Campus at NC State to announce an investment in apprenticeships, United...
Featured From village teacher to bridge builder, Freebird McKinney takes on State Board role by Mebane Rash | February 18, 2020 On Friday, Feb. 14, 2020, the news broke that Freebird McKinney, the 2018 Burroughs Wellcome Fund North Carolina Teacher of...
Featured States can’t boost attainment without better serving adult learners. Here’s how. by Mebane Rash and Taylor Shain | February 14, 2020 “She used the word,” educators behind me whisper. There is a collective gasp from the audience. Andragogy. Ever heard of...
Featured EdNC’s Student Town Halls: ‘You are the future of democracy’ by Mebane Rash | February 12, 2020 “Our priority,” said Matt Bristow-Smith, the principal of the Edgecombe County Early College, “is lifting up young people as engaged...
Featured Thinking about our teachers, thinking about our ‘difference makers’ by Mebane Rash | February 11, 2020 “There are more than 100,000 teachers in North Carolina. We know there are effective teachers in all our communities across...
Featured Wonder what it’s like to visit a community college with EdNC? Join us. ‘The future is now’ at DCCC by Mebane Rash | February 10, 2020 The first thing I saw as Nation and I pulled into Davidson County Community College — also known as DCCC...
Featured The work and life of Mark Story reminds us, ‘This is about the students’ by Mebane Rash | February 7, 2020 “Check your ego at the door,” said Mark Story at the NC Chamber’s Education and Workforce Conference in August 2019....
Featured How we are reaching more people who care about education by Nation Hahn | January 29, 2020 “Who cares about education in North Carolina?” This question kept rattling around in my mind as I considered how EdNC...
Featured On leadership of the self, the organization, and society: What I’ve learned leading EdNC by Mebane Rash | January 28, 2020 When was the last time you slowed down, stopped, took three steps back, and created the space for yourself to...
Featured EducationNC’s Annual Report, 2019-20 by Mebane Rash | January 27, 2020 EducationNC launched on January 12, 2015 with these core beliefs: EducationNC provides citizens and policymakers with independent data, news, research,...
Featured EdNC turns 5: Who gives a damn about education? You do. by Mebane Rash | January 27, 2020 “The more desperately the press chases readers, the more it resembles our politics.” I read that line for the first...
Featured Some New Year’s resolutions for a state that gives a damn about education by Mebane Rash | January 6, 2020 Innovation often starts with a disruptive question. What is the purpose of education now, what will it be in 2040,...
