3/18/2025
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Perspective | Redefining the achievement gap
The achievement gap is one of the most important challenges in education. We’ve gone through waves of education reform. We’ve spent billions of public and philanthropic dollars. Despite these efforts, we’ve made too little progress in solving this problem. An...
‘Highlights’ report of the budget for North Carolina public schools is out for 2024-25
During the 2024-25 school year, North Carolina public schools received $12.6 billion in state funding and $1.1 billion in federal funding — excluding child nutrition and the last of federal relief funds — according to the Department of Public Instruction’s...
Clara Hearne Pre-K Center ‘fixes what’s broken’
The Clara Hearne Pre-K Center sits in the middle of a city block, surrounded by tidy single-story homes half a mile from the main drag in Roanoke Rapids. The building has been there for 90 years. If Clara Hearne —...
Declining enrollment in teacher education programs makes UNC pause music education track
This story was originally published by UNC Media Hub. When an email with the subject line “Music Education Program Update” popped up in Corey Sheppard’s inbox last March, he said he couldn’t have prepared himself for the news it held...
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