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Listen | Interrupted podcast explores views from college during COVID-19
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?…
Great needs, limited funds: Lawmakers discuss COVID-19 relief
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.…
Perspective | Tar Heel Teachers at Home: Interview with Dr. Meghan Doyle
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).…
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
College journalists push back on campus reopenings
Student journalists are uniquely positioned to cover the pandemic's effects on campuses because they are "living the stories they write," Anna Pogarcic said. "We have a unique obligation to … speak for the students."... Read the rest
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‘A Bird Trapped in a Golden Cage’: Amid the Pandemic, One Student’s Story of Abuse During Quarantine
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WITH HOWDY MANNING | NC elementary schools should focus on reading, math during pandemic, longtime judge says
