Teachers "Walk-In" For More Respect, Resources
Roger Schultz is a teacher. For 20 years, he’s taught severely handicapped students. Today, he’s standing outside Riverside High School, doing what he normally does – greeting every bleary-eyed,...
View ArticleMcCrory Creates Teacher Advisory Committee
Governor Pat McCrory is seeking the advice of two-dozen teachers in developing education policy. The Governor's Teacher Advisory Committee met for the first time - a day after educators across the...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Teacher Project - An Overview
The pressure on North Carolina’s 95,000 classroom teachers is mounting. Inside the classroom, teachers wrestle with an increase in child poverty, implementing the new Common Core curriculum, and...
View ArticleThe State Of Teaching In North Carolina
Sweeping reforms in education laws this year angered many teachers. Hundreds protested the lack of a pay increase, the elimination of tenure and the end of the master’s degree supplement. For the more...
View ArticleHow We Got Here: Teaching In North Carolina
Alice Battle was already a veteran teacher when integration finally came to North Carolina.Thirteen years after Brown v. Board of Education, she was peering out the window of her second-floor...
View ArticleWhere We Are Now: Teaching In North Carolina
Earlier this year, as the North Carolina General Assembly was just beginning its session, Senate Leader Phil Berger stood before the media to explain what he hoped to accomplish. Not surprisingly, much...
View ArticleWhere We Are Going: Teaching In North Carolina
Education is the family business for the Von Eitzens. Ben and Beth have been at it for about a decade; he’s a high school science teacher, she’s a guidance counselor. From all appearances, they had it...
View ArticleWhat's On The State Of Things Today? (Friday)
Why do teachers stay and why do they go? Dave DeWitt has been reporting on this subject around the state in recent weeks. He's been meeting teachers and students and today he'll preview his series with...
View ArticleTraining Teachers: Schools Of Ed Produce Effective Teachers, Face Declining...
Exams are looming for the freshmen students in ED 100, the introductory class in NC State’s School of Education. But instead of looking stressed or worried, the first-year education majors have a...
View ArticleTraining Teachers: Mid-Career Teachers Bring Experience To Classroom
Marci Harvey never dreamed of being a teacher. She was a scientist - a recent graduate of the Ph.D. program at the University of South Carolina - when she got married and moved to the Triad and found...
View ArticleTraining Teachers: Teach For America Draws Praise, Criticism
Teaching may be in Ethan Tillman’s blood – his mother is a teacher in Charlotte - but in college at the University of South Carolina, he dreamed of being a television reporter.But a few months after...
View ArticleTraining Teachers: The Growing Political Influence Of Teach For America In NC
Rob Bryan might not have needed the help. As the chairman of the Mecklenburg County Republican Party, he was well-positioned to run against, and defeat, a Democratic incumbent for a seat in the State...
View ArticleMy Teacher: Connecting Students With Memorable Teachers
The North Carolina Teacher Project is WUNC’s yearlong look at the state of the teaching profession in North Carolina. It includes policy discussions on The State of Things and through feature reports,...
View ArticleTeachers Fight Over Loss Of Tenure, New Contracts
There are 95,000 public school teachers in North Carolina, give or take. So how many, given their only chance to comment publicly on the end of tenure, would make their way to downtown Raleigh to voice...
View ArticleNC Teacher Of The Year Attends State Of Union, Has Unexpected Highlight
Karyn Dickerson had a night most teachers dream of. She'd been invited to the State of the Union address in Washington.Dickerson had a dinner with the senators, had a great view of President Obama. He...
View ArticleBLOG: The Teacher's Room 'I Am The 14 Percent.'
1/31/14:"I am the 14 percent. I am one of many teachers in North Carolina considering leaving the profession. I don't want to. It hurts to voice this. But we are entering a time of darkness in...
View ArticleParents Of A Black Child Spend Years Documenting His Experience At A...
Over the course of 13 years, Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson filmed their son's progress through the elite New York City prep school called Dalton. As an African-American family in a predominantly...
View ArticleRepublicans Plan To Pay Some NC Teachers More, Democrats Scoff
Republican leaders in North Carolina have announced a plan to increase teacher compensation. It would raise the starting salary for new teachers, making North Carolina much more competitive in what it...
View ArticlePay Cuts, End Of Tenure Put North Carolina Teachers On Edge
Teacher salaries are losing ground fast in North Carolina.Jennifer Spivey has been a teacher for three years at South Columbus High School, on the north side of the border between the Carolinas. She's...
View ArticleRepublicans Hope Salary Increases Ease Teacher Turnover
Diane Ravitch is an education historian. She’s also a best-selling author and hugely influential on social media. In the past few years, she’s also become the champion for traditional public school...
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