James Ford releases an in-depth look at race and equity in education

The Editor’s Notes

Follow along at EdNC as James Ford releases his in-depth look at race and education. This page is your one-stop shop for the report as we roll it out over the next three weeks. All of us at EdNC are very proud of James and the CREED team. As he says, “let’s face it to fix it.”

Need to know

• Innovative Public Schools with Dr. Lynn Moody, Superintendent of Rowan-Salisbury School System

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• 7 facts about black Americans and the news media

  Pew Research Center | August 7, 2019

• Does Class Size Matter? How, and at What Cost?

  Cato Institute | August 7, 2019

• All student debt in the US, visualized

  Vox | August 6, 2019

• Community Dies in Darkness

  City Journal | August 8, 2019

• Young Americans are less trusting of other people – and key institutions – than their elders

  Pew Research Center | August 6, 2019

• Policymakers can help businesses retrain their workers

  Brookings | August 5, 2019

• Hoke County schools to provide free breakfast, lunch meals to all students for 2019-20 school year

  WRAL | August 9, 2019

• K-12 Education Legislative Update

  NC Public Schools | August 10, 2019

• Budget impasse frustrates preparation for financial literacy course requirement

  Carolina Journal | August 12, 2019

• America's School Funding Struggle: How We're Robbing Our Future By Under-Investing In Our Children

  Forbes | August 5, 2019