The Editor’s Notes

Need to know

• What Explains Success at Success Academy? Charter network focuses on what is being taught, and how

  EducationNext |

• Tasers used on more minority Guilford County students than whites

  The Greensboro News & Record | April 16, 2015

• House votes to make PEPs optional

  WRAL | April 15, 2015

• NC Bill Makes It Felony For Students To Assault School Teachers

  WUNC Radio | April 15, 2015

• Q&A with James Ford, 2014 NC Teacher of the Year

  NC Policy Watch | April 15, 2015

• Legislation would make local school board elections partisan

  The Asheville Citizen-Times | April 15, 2015

• Jim Hunt Documentary: State of Mine

  WRAL | April 15, 2015

• McCrory announces statewide STEM initiative with help from GSK

  WNCN | April 15, 2015

• NC Senate Majority Leaders asks counties to weigh in on sales tax legislation

  Hickory Daily Record | April 14, 2015

• Real-World Math: A Bit Of Trig And Hay For The Horses

  NPR Ed | April 15, 2015

• Will college survive? For many, it never existed

  The Hechinger Report | April 16, 2015

• 'Historic': First Katrina state takeover school returns to New Orleans control

  NOLA.com | April 14, 2015

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