Leaders of Edenton-Chowan elementary schools were prepared to recommend that their district’s school board move them to full in-person instruction when Gov. Roy Cooper announced the possibility this month. “We were like, oh yeah, plan A, let’s do it. Because...
Oct. 1 marks the beginning of the 2021-2022 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) cycle. The form can be filled out by current and prospective college students any time between now and June 30, 2022. But many colleges and...
The two candidates running for North Carolina state superintendent of public instruction, Dr. Jen Mangrum and Catherine Truitt, answered questions Tuesday afternoon in a virtual conversation hosted by the Public School Forum of NC for alumni of the North Carolina...
Roughly 600 of North Carolina’s high schools offer Advanced Placement (AP) classes, but only 148 of those schools offered an AP computer science course in 2018-19. In 2019, only 4,525 exams were taken in AP computer science by high school...
The National Bureau of Economic Research | July 31, 2020
Tutoring—defined here as one-on-one or small-group instructional programming by teachers, paraprofessionals, volunteers, or parents—is one of the most versatile and potentially transformative educational tools in use today...
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