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Listen | Interrupted podcast explores views from college during COVID-19

by Anna Pogarcic | August 25, 2020

If you’re a college student, how do you weigh your desire for the experience with the desire to get your degree, and then with the preservation of your health? That’s the question confronting students as they start the fall semester....

Great needs, limited funds: Lawmakers discuss COVID-19 relief

by Alex Granados | August 25, 2020

State education leaders are asking lawmakers for more than $120 million in Coronavirus Relief Funds (CRF) to help keep North Carolina school systems running this year. Meanwhile, state legislators have between roughly $500 and $900 million dollars in Coronavirus Relief...

Perspective | Tar Heel Teachers at Home: Interview with Dr. Meghan Doyle

by Marlow Artis | August 25, 2020

Tar Heel Teachers at Home is a weekly videocast focused on engaging North Carolinians in conversations about education. Each week, a panel of educators interview a guest(s). In this videocast, the Tar Heel Teachers chat with Dr. Meghan Doyle, superintendent...

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The Editor’s Notes

You may have seen Anna Pogarcic recently in the national news. Anna is the editor-in-chief of the Daily Tar Heel at UNC-Chapel Hill, and she has been in the spotlight for a print headline, “UNC has a clusterfuck on its hands.” Perhaps more importantly, she is in the news for defending the headline with the short statement, “Print news. Raise hell.” Anna was a fellow with EdNC this summer, and I hope you’ll tune in and share her podcast, “Interrupted.”

 

Need to know

• ‘A Bird Trapped in a Golden Cage’: Amid the Pandemic, One Student’s Story of Abuse During Quarantine

  The 74 | August 25, 2020

• WITH HOWDY MANNING | NC elementary schools should focus on reading, math during pandemic, longtime judge says

  WRAL | August 25, 2020

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