The Editor’s Notes

Need to know

• Learning English: Accountability, Common Core, and the college-for-all movement are transforming instruction

  EducationNext | December 1, 2015

• Charters and Districts Team Up on Special Education

  Education Week | December 2, 2015

• How schools would be judged under ‘Every Student Succeeds,’ the new No Child Left Behind

  The Washington Post | December 30, 2015

• What we’re getting wrong about campus protests: Freedom of speech doesn’t go out the window just because students are fortunate enough to attend college

  The Hechinger Report | December 1, 2015

• Study finds diversity plan lessened Wake County school segregation

  The News & Observer | November 30, 2015

• Remembering The Fight For School Desegregation in Franklin County

  WUNC Radio | November 30, 2015

• Gaston County OKs improvement plans for 13 schools

  The Gaston Gazette | November 27, 2015

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