The Editor’s Notes

January 24-30 is National School Choice Week. Here is an article about one everyday hero seeking public school choice. Here is an article about another everyday hero working with charters and traditional public schools. Today, Alex Granados, EdNC’s reporter, will cover Darrell Allison’s speech at the John Locke Foundation, Empowering Parents Through School Choice: A Celebration of North Carolina’s Progress. And here is EdNC’s first podcast with Rep. Skip Stam.

Need to know

• What Matters for Student Achievement

  EducationNext | January 24, 2016

• Acting U.S. Secretary of Education speaks out in a state where anti-testing backlash looms

  The Hechinger Report | January 22, 2016

• Minority Students Drive UNC-System Growth

  WUNC Radio | January 22, 2016

• There’s Nothing Like a Blizzard to Make You Appreciate School

  Schooled: Slate | January 22, 2016

• The Future of Restraint and Seclusion in Schools

  The Atlantic | January 24, 2016

• EdBuild: How a New Player in the Ed Reform Game Is Skipping the Usual Battle Lines to Focus on Funding

  The 74 Million | January 24, 2016

• Forest brings GOP message to Carteret

  Carteret County News-Times | January 20, 2016

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