On May 24, on one of the final days of the school year, at least 21 people were shot and killed at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, the vast majority of them children.…
Funding aimed at improving student reading proficiency is expected to get a boost during the legislative short session, and educators are watching to see if that spending is designed to directly impact instruction in the classroom.…
Update, 11:28 a.m. on Thursday: On Thursday, the Senate health care committee gave a favorable report to the bill, which will now go to the Rules Committee before a floor vote by full Senate.…
Schools That Lead is getting ready to launch the third cohort of its North Carolina Networked Improvement Communities.
According to background materials from Schools That Lead, an organization that helps teachers and principals lead improvement efforts in classrooms, these Networked Improvement Communities “harness the power of a network of principals and teacher-leaders in K-13 schools across North Carolina to reduce the number of students in each building who are likely to underperform, disengage from school and drop out.”…
The following is part of my monthly column, One Day and One Goal: Expanding opportunity in N.C. I invite you to follow along as I share stories from classrooms and explore critical issues facing education in our state. …
Dear friends and neighbors,
Yesterday I saw the news about the 19 children and two teachers killed at an elementary school in Texas 20 minutes before going into our listening session with Durham educators to talk about mental health in our schools.…
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Many North Carolina students are months and in some cases more than a year behind where they should be academically in reading and math as a result of learning loss during the pandemic.<br />
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