Rep. Tim Moore’s recent missive in EdNC.org (“Education reforms for North Carolina’s future”) begins with one of the more sweeping fallacies made by many in Raleigh who champion the crippling policies surrounding public education. He starts, “The North Carolina General Assembly is implementing meaningful public school reforms that are popular with parents and students because … Continue reading North Carolina’s Continued Passive Aggressive War on Public Education
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“At” The Table or “On” the Table – The Need for Teacher Input in Educational “Reform”
You can be either “at” the table or “on” the table. For teachers in North Carolina, there are many other prepositions that could identify the relationship between the legislation process and teacher input such as “under” the table, “without” a place at the table, or “behind” the table. But we are really never “at” the … Continue reading “At” The Table or “On” the Table – The Need for Teacher Input in Educational “Reform”
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North Carolina Should Get Back to the ROOTS of the Teaching Fellows Program, Not Just the STEM
It is rather odd that in the same session that produced the nebulous and de-professionalizing SB599 bill a sanitized and highly truncated version of the North Carolina Teaching Fellows program was reintroduced. As reported by Matthew Adams in the “Under The Dome” section of the News & Observer on July 1st, North Carolina will pay … Continue reading North Carolina Should Get Back to the ROOTS of the Teaching Fellows Program, Not Just the STEM
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North Carolina – FULLY FUND YOUR SCHOOLS!
This article should be talked about more than it has been especially in North Carolina whose state government has been entertaining ideas of revamping how it allocates its k-12 funding per LEA. It appeared in the New York Times’ “The Upshot” on Dec. 12th and is entitled “It Turns Out Spending More Probably Does Improve … Continue reading North Carolina – FULLY FUND YOUR SCHOOLS!
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