U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona last week encouraged educators and leaders to press forward during a challenging time for schools navigating the omicron surge, staff shortages, and heightened mental health needs. “We can’t lose this moment, this chance for...
The state Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is not acting with enough urgency to address student learning loss, according to staff members of a General Assembly committee. But leaders in DPI dispute the claim. The Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental...
This article is the first in a series looking at the future of school meals from policy to practice. We begin with an EdExplainer on key child nutrition programs. For more than 75 years, schools across the United States have...
A teacher pipeline proposal making its way around the state claims to be the pathway to address the teacher shortage. As a parent of two elementary students and a veteran North Carolina teacher who has witnessed “teacher flight” for ten years, I’m concerned...
The PNC Foundation announced Tuesday that it would provide $2 million in grants to five Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in North Carolina. The grants, PNC leaders said at a press conference, will allow these institutions to enhance their...
When the pandemic struck in March 2020, and in-person learning came to a screeching halt, Hill Learning Center in Durham rose to the challenge and, in only three weeks, developed and released a version of its Hill Reading Achievement Program...
The Editor’s Notes
The N.C. State Board of Education continues its meeting today. Here is the agenda.
Policymakers and policyshapers and policybreakers are all trying to make meaning of this study. See the article by The Hechinger Report too, and then tell me what you think on Twitter @Mebane_Rash....
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