10/8/2025
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Advanced Teaching Roles program shows improved test scores, but faces funding concerns
North Carolina’s Advanced Teaching Roles program, which allows highly effective teachers to receive salary supplements for teaching additional students or supporting other teachers, is having positive effects on math and science test scores, according to an evaluation presented by NC...
Marking a legacy: Annie Wealthy Holland’s impact on North Carolina schools
Community members gathered at T.S. Cooper Elementary School last month to honor Annie Wealthy Holland, an educator whose work shaped Black schools in North Carolina during the Jim Crow era. The community festival was organized by the Center for Racial...
Perspective | The first classroom: What the children taught me
They say every educational journey has a first classroom. Mine was a very small room, a former office, at the end of a long cinderblock hallway, filled with second graders — most of whom were supposed to be third graders....
The Editor’s Notes
This week is Campus Children’s Centers Week. ICYMI, here is EdNC’s model analysis of the different types of child care provided on campus across NC.
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North Carolina Asian Americans Together (NCAAT) is hosting a virtual listening session for ALL K-12 educators across the state.
This listening session is an opportunity to share your experiences, concerns, and hopes for what a truly inclusive curriculum could look like in North Carolina schools. Read the rest
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Applying for college financial aid? Here’s what’s different about this year’s FAFSA
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Teacher vacancies down, but many NC districts cut vacant positions, group says
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As Tuition Rises, Free-College Programs Are as Relevant as Ever
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