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1/5/2026

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Perspective | What if we valued joy in schools?

by Robert Smith, Denise Ousley, Jessica Harvey and ChatGPT |

A year ago, my colleague Denise Ousley and I, both of us teacher educators preparing high school teachers, created the Teaching with Joy Network (TWJN). Our focus on joy began after I observed a high school social studies intern whose...

Perspective | The debate behind the EdTech debate

by Karl Johnson and Stan Winborne |

One of the great powers of modern technology is its ability to help us forget what things are for. As the theorist Jacques Ellul spelled out in his massive tome The Technological Society, “Our civilization is first and foremost a...

The Editor’s Notes

The N.C. State Board of Education meets this week. Here is the agenda for Wednesday. Here is the agenda for Thursday.

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EdNC | January 1, 2026

EdNC's Chantal Brown accompanied Superintendent Green on his fall listening tour. It was all on the record. Here is where he went, who he met with, and more.... Read the rest

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Mebane Rash

Mebane Rash is the CEO and editor-in-chief of EducationNC.

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