North Carolina’s A-F grading system has been used to evaluate NC public schools since the 2013-14 school year, but the system’s deeply flawed formula produces grades that completely fail to provide meaningful information about school quality. People usually expect grades to align well with what’s being graded. When a school is assigned an A through […]
Last week, NCDPI presented to the State Board of Education its report 2020-2021 State of the Teaching Profession in North Carolina. This annual report describes trends in teaching from March 2020 through March 2021. Widely reported was the finding that the overall state attrition rate for 2020-21 is 8.20%, only slightly higher than the rates for […]
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For more than a decade, NC has been experiencing a shrinking teacher pipeline and a teacher shortage. The teacher pipeline refers to the interconnected system that extends from recruiting individuals into the profession, developing them as teachers, and retaining them through retirement. To have a robust teacher pipeline, teaching in NC needs to be an attractive […]
