RALEIGH (April 10, 2024) – Call it a well-earned smackdown. On the day Lee Roberts took office as Interim Chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill in January, UNC System leaders sent the Chair ...

RALEIGH (April 10, 2024) – Sara Scanlon feels “steadily increasing pressure” to increase graduation rates among her students – whether they’ve mastered the material or not. In our latest installment of ...

CONCORD (April 4, 2024) – To Natalia Mejia, teachers should be treated like the professionals they are. In the latest installment of our Teachers Talk series, the ESL teacher at C.C. ...

RALEIGH (April 4, 2024) – If you don’t see a connection between investment in public education and North Carolina’s economy, take it from someone who has. “Public education is critically important ...

RALEIGH (March 28, 2024) – A state House committee acknowledged this week what was painfully clear even two years ago: North Carolina’s pay for teachers hasn’t kept up with inflation. The ...

This story was first published by The Assembly, a statewide digital magazine in North Carolina. UNC System President Bill Friday scaled back basketball after players shaved points. Now a gambling executive ...

CHAPEL HILL (March 23, 2024) – Here we go: The search “advisory” committee for a new chancellor at UNC Chapel Hill met for the first time Thursday under a policy ...

By David Rice Executive Director, Public Ed Works WINCHESTER, Va. (March 23, 2024) – The following is an exchange this week between my high school English teacher and my high school math ...

By Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein CHAPEL HILL (March 13, 2024) – Much has been written about how confidence in higher education has plummeted. As devastating as they are, the surveys ...

By Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (March 13, 2024) – Despite the ivory tower stereotype, American universities are marked by their embrace of pragmatic education. We’re the country that invented land-grant colleges devoted ...