>>The latest blow to the profession of teaching in North Carolina is a move to eliminate career status – otherwise known as tenure. Tenure for...[Read More]
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>>Comedian Dhaya Lakshminarayanan tells a funny story about the challenge of teaching her mother the transitive property of mathematics (if a=b and b=c, then a=c). Mom...[Read More]
>>Congratulations to all 20-something year-old North Carolina women – it finally and officially sucks to be us. The report on The Status of North Carolina...[Read More]
>>Domestic violence programs funded by the NC Council for Women served more than 61,000 people in fiscal year 2010-2011, and 84% of them were women....[Read More]
The recently released >>Status of Women in North Carolina report shows both the progress North Carolina women have made and the challenges we still face....[Read More]
>>BY DENISE MARSHALL You know who first advocated for the creation of charter schools? Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers. >>Back in...[Read More]
>>I’m (almost) convinced of the existence of a countdown calendar for education reform: every few years, somebody in a suit crusades to revamp North Carolina’s...[Read More]
>>Sequestration. It sounds like a nonsense word. Or maybe some sort of equestrian event – like hurdle jumping with seahorses. It’s actually $85 billion in...[Read More]
>>In 2000, North Carolina was striving to move up the teacher-pay ranks. We were in the middle, relative to other states, but we wanted to...[Read More]