The Editor’s Notes

Need to know

• One in 10 N.C. middle-schoolers have attempted suicide

  Wilmington StarNews | March 30, 2015

• The whole world is going to university. Is it worth it? A special report.

  The Economist | March 28, 2015

• NC waiver on No Child Left Behind extended until 2019

  The News & Observer | March 31, 2015

• Why More Education Won’t Fix Economic Inequality

  The Upshot: The New York Times | March 31, 2015

• Appointed school boards like Asheville's are rare in NC

  The Asheville Citizen-Times | March 31, 2015

• Racial disparities at heart of N.C.'s struggle with poverty, experts agree

  Wilmington StarNews | March 31, 2015

• A, B, C: Lawmakers push back change to grading scale

  WRAL | April 1, 2015

• Helping Struggling Students: Lawmakers Say Some Plans Are Inefficient

  WUNC | March 30, 2015

• VIDEO: Transferring 16- And 17-Year-Olds’ Misdemeanors to Juvenile System

  The Carolina Journal | March 31, 2015

• Edgecombe school board discusses potential Nash-Rocky Mount split

  The Rocky Mount Telegram | March 31, 2015

• K-12 Law's Legacy Blend of Idealism, Policy Tensions

  Education Week | March 31, 2015

• Q&A: U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan

  Education Week | March 31, 2015

• How Common Core is killing the textbook

  The Hechinger Report | March 31, 2015

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