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12/6/2023

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Report ranks best schools in North Carolina

by Laura Browne |

The U.S. News & World Report released its updated lists ranking public North Carolina elementary, middle, and high schools based on components like student proficiency and performance.

The Editor’s Notes

Yesterday, BEST NC held its 2023 North Carolina Education Innovation Lab, featuring a spotlight on teacher pay. Check out the full report and articles below as well as all the tweets at #NCEdLab2023.

N.C. State Board of Education meets today. Stay tuned.

The deadline for the call for submissions for publication in the North Carolina Community College Journal of Teaching Innovation is Friday, December 8th, 2023. Here is more information about the call. Submit here.

I’ll be speaking with Leadership North Carolina this morning about our public school students. Did you know 34% of our students live in rural counties? Did you know our students speak 334 different languages, with Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Hindi/Indian/Urdu being the top five languages spoken in our public schools? Did you know there are 16 categories of exceptional children served by our public schools? And, as our state board will hear today, last year the average daily census for students served in psychiatric residential treatment facilities was 301 children with an average age of 13 and an average length of stay of 279 days.

Thank you for supporting our work to build awareness about all of our students and all of our public schools.

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Featured Read

Teacher Pay in North Carolina: A Smart Investment in Student Achievement

BEST NC | December 5, 2023

Teachers are the most significant in-school factor for student success and the most important thing we can do to improve our education system is to recruit, prepare, support, and retain great talent for our schools. ... Read the rest

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

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