10/1/2020

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This district’s leaders were ready for plan A, but its teachers weren’t

by Liz Bell | September 30, 2020

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...

The 2021-22 FAFSA opens today. Here’s what’s different this year.

by Analisa Sorrells Archer | October 1, 2020

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...

NC state superintendent candidates participate in conversation hosted by Public School Forum of NC

by Lindsay Wagner | September 30, 2020

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...

Perspective | STEM Scholars Program: Narrowing the computer science gap

by Ana Ratanaphruks | September 30, 2020

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...

Need to know

• Map: Some School Systems in N.C. are Moving to Plan A with More In-Person Classes

  Spectrum News | September 30, 2020

• Schools Already Struggled to Teach Reading Right. Now They Have to Do It Online

  Education Week | September 29, 2020

• NEW IDEAS IN TEACHER COMPENSATION

  SREB | September 30, 2020

• Pandemic increases hardships on families, children

  NC Health News | September 30, 2020