2/7/2022
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Halifax County Schools: Lighting the way forward on apprenticeships
Halifax County Schools Superintendent Eric Cunningham tells his students that when they get their first check, they should lay a $20-dollar-bill down on their mom’s pillow. He tells them not to say anything. Just lay down the money and leave....
What adult learners are teaching N.C. community colleges
It’s been seven months since the launch of N.C. Reconnect, an initiative aimed at reconnecting adult learners (students over the age of 25) to community colleges in North Carolina, and initial data is showing positive results. Early fall 2021 data...
Perspective | Supporting trauma-informed practices in schools
The following is Mary Ann Wolf’s “Final Word” from the Feb. 3, 2022 broadcast of Education Matters: “Supporting trauma-informed practices in schools.” As we continue our focus on the whole child and student mental health, it is important for us...
The Editor’s Notes
Tomorrow, the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations, Subcommittee on Use and Distribution of Federal COVID Funding meets again to hear about school nutrition and technology. It will meet in the auditorium in the Legislative Building at 9 a.m. You can stream the meeting here.
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Jill Biden acknowledges free community college has fallen out of her husband’s Build Back Better agenda
First lady Jill Biden acknowledged Monday that two years of tuition-free community college is no longer part of President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, telling a group of educators that she is “disappointed” that the p Read the rest
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Union County Public Schools ends COVID-19 contact tracing, quarantine requirements
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The Educators Who Decided That Context Doesn’t Matter
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Districts Are Raising Wages to Fix Shortages. Is It Sustainable?
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Three Governors to End School Mask Rules. Will Others Follow?
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COLUMN: Are book bans stopping a Marxist “revolution” or whitewashing the past?
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