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The EC teacher shortage in North Carolina: Solutions from EdNC’s reporting
Editor’s Note: EdNC’s Chantal Brown, as part of the Education Writers Association Reporting Fellowship, is conducting research on the educator workforce in North Carolina, with a specific lens on the recruitment, retention, and professional development of teachers working with students in special education.…
NC Ed Corps highlights need for more high-dosage tutoring
As North Carolina celebrates the completion of its science of reading training for K-3 teachers and literacy gains for young students, nearly half of of early-grade students are still below grade-level benchmarks.…
State Board of Education discusses proposed K-12 arts standards
The State Board of Education recently received a presentation on proposed K-12 arts standards which would make various updates to the standard course of study for music, dance, visual arts, and theater. …
Perspective | Building the cyber workforce pipeline
Several weeks ago at Blue Ridge Community College’s commencement ceremony, hundreds of students celebrated the completion of programs preparing them to enter diverse industry sectors ranging from health care to manufacturing to education.…
The Editor’s Notes
Politico’s weekly education newsletter spotlights the federal funding cliff looming for K-12 schools.
It says, “Federal programs that poured billions of dollars into post-pandemic academic recovery are getting ready to sunset, leaving educators and experts with an uncomfortable question: If spending in U.S. public education flattens, will the scores too?”
The newsletter says, “In several states, the funds paid off.” And North Carolina is one of them, it says.
It points to this Edunomics analysis of federal data, which “found that the increase in spending in places like Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, corresponded with a stronger recovery in both fourth grade reading and eighth grade math.”
In other news, our series on the recruitment, retention, and professional development of EC teachers concludes today. Shout out to Chantal Brown on our team. We would love feedback. Please email me at mrash at ednc.org.
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