The Editor’s Notes

The State Board of Education meets next week. Here is the agenda for August 5, and here is the agenda for August 6.

• Value of public schools: The great divide in North Carolina GOP?

  The Charlotte Observer | July 30, 2015

• Growing interest in school vouchers in WNC

  Asheville Citizen-Times | July 30, 2015

• VIDEO: The Complicated Problem Of Race And Special Education

  EducationNext | July 29, 2015

• Old Hands, New Hurdles: State Chiefs Who Take the Local Reins

  Education Week | July 30, 2015

• Liberal arts-STEM mashup: Not a bad way to fix higher ed

  The Hechinger Report | July 30, 2015

• Conservatives convinced College Board to rewrite American history

  The Washington Post | July 30, 2015

• What the New Education Buzzwords Actually Mean

  The Atlantic | July 30, 2015

• The74 to Host and Stream GOP Education Summit. New Hampshire, Aug. 19

  The 74 Million | July 22, 2015

• After year of triumph and pain, teacher James Ford charts new path

  The Charlotte Observer | July 29, 2015

• The Russell Schoolhouse: Durham’s Last Rosenwald School

  WUNC Radio | July 30, 2015

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