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Episode 54 - Technology and Personalized Learning
This week we visit two elementary schools – Rogers Lane Elementary in Wake County and Perry Harrison Elementary in Chatham County – to learn more abo…
7 years, 10 months ago
Episode 53 - Investing Early in Our Future
We talk with leaders from across North Carolina who gathered in Raleigh this week for the 2018 Emerging Issues Forum. This year’s Forum focused on in…
7 years, 11 months ago
Episode 52 - Future of Education in the American South
A new report out this week says that while North Carolina and other Southern states made major advances in education in recent decades, achievement g…
7 years, 11 months ago
Episode 51 - Top 10 Education Issues for 2018
The Public School Forum of NC unveiled its Top 10 Education Issues for 2018 this week. A panel of legislative, education and business leaders discuss…
7 years, 11 months ago
Episode 50 - Is a Class Size Fix Coming?
Last week, hundreds of parents, teachers and students descended on Raleigh calling on the General Assembly to address the K-3 class size mandate they…
7 years, 11 months ago
Episode 49 - NC's School Funding Divide
At a time of intense focus by state leaders on how schools are funded in North Carolina, a new study out this week show a stark and growing gap betwe…
8 years ago
Episode 48 - Legislative Preview and the Class Size Mandate
The General Assembly will re-convene next week for a special continuation of the 2017 regular session. Will the class size mandate or principal pay b…
8 years ago
Episode 47 - Conversation with Governor Jim Hunt
A one-on-one conversation with the original “Education Governor”, four-term North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. We discuss how he made educati…
8 years, 1 month ago
Episode 46 - The New NC Teaching Fellows Program
The original NC Teaching Fellows Program was eliminated by the General Assembly in 2011. This year legislators created a new version of the forgivabl…
8 years, 1 month ago
Episode 45 - Childhood Trauma & Learning
Studies show that children who regularly experience trauma score lower than their peers on standardized tests are more likely to fail a grade, are pl…
8 years, 1 month ago