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Episode 84 - Importance of Principal Leadership
Education research has shown the single most important school-based factor student’s academic success is the classroom teacher. But research also sho…
7 years, 1 month ago
Episode 83 - Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Satana Deberry campaigned to become Durham County’s next District Attorney advocating for reforms in the criminal justice system, including how stude…
7 years, 1 month ago
Episode 82 - The New State Board of Education
The NC General Assembly may have stripped the North Carolina State Board of Education of much of its power, but a new chairman and several new Board …
7 years, 2 months ago
Episode 81 - How will the election affect education in NC?
North Carolinians began casting ballots on October 17th at early-voting sites across the state and Election Day is next week. This year’s election in…
7 years, 2 months ago
Episode 80 - Community Fights School Takeover
Carver Heights Elementary School in Wayne County has been picked by the Innovative School District to become the 2nd NC school to be taken over by th…
7 years, 2 months ago
Episode 79 - The Color of Law
Our guest this week is best-selling author Richard Rothstein. He’s a Senior Fellow at the Haas Institute at the University of California at Berkeley …
7 years, 2 months ago
Episode 78 - Students and Race
“America To Me” is a new documentary series currently airing on the Starz cable network that was screened this week at events in Durham and Charlotte…
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 77 - Interview with New York Times Magazine’s Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nikole Hannah-Jones is one of the country’s most respected and influential voices on issues of race and education. She was named a 2017 MacArthur Gen…
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 76 - Is NC providing access to quality public education?
In 1997, the NC Supreme Court held unanimously in the landmark Leandro case that North Carolina public school students are entitled under the state c…
7 years, 4 months ago
Episode 75 - One-on-One with State Superintendent Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson was elected nearly two years ago as State Superintendent of Public Instruction. For much of his tenure he was engaged in a power struggl…
7 years, 4 months ago