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March 2021 – Amend House Bill 69 – An Act to Integrate Multicultural Experiences into the NC Standard Course of Study by Shai Woodbury, Chair, Winston-Salem Forsyth County Board of Education

March 2019 – Senate Bill 247 Press Conference Comments by Christine Kushner, Wake County Board of Education member

March 2019 – Senate Bill 247 Press Conference Comments by Natalie Beyer, Durham County Board of Education member

March 2019 – Senate Bill 329 Press Conference – Teacher Assistants bill by Teresa Sawyer, Vice President of NC Association of Teacher Assistants

March 2019 – Senate Bill 329 Press Conference – Teacher Assistants bill by Chris Brown, President of NC Association of Teacher Assistants

March 2019 – Senate Bill 329 Comments by Laura Fisher, NCATA 2006 Teacher Assistant of the Year

July 2017 – Investing in Quality Early Childhood Programs Is Not Enough by Tiffany Pyen

March 2017: What Does That Grade Mean? by Dr. June Atkinson

November 2016: The Promise and Perils of Virtual Schooling by Lance Fusarelli and Andrew Saultz

September 2016: Bold Steps Connecting with the Future: Global Teachers and Schools by M. Jayne Fleener

May 2015: An Inconsistent Truth: The Efficacy of TFA Corps Members by Beth Sondel and Brian Brinkley

February 2015: Roots of STEM: Research on North Carolina Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Across the UNC System  by Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Elizabeth Stearns, Stephanie Moller, Martha Bottia and Melissa Dancy

January 2015: The Situated and Distributed Nature of Teacher Effectiveness by Jimmy Scherrer

January 2015: UNC Scandal & Literacy Levels: Racism, Relationships and Reading Instruction by Angela Wiseman, Abbey Graham, Kirsten Aleman, Donna Hawkins, June Hurt, Jill Jones, Shea Kerkoff, Justin Richards

November 2014: Principal Leadership in Beating the Odds Schools by Kathleen M. Brown

September 2014: Self-Governing Schools, Parental Choice and the Public Interest by Helen F. Ladd

September 2014: NC Public Education and the Strange Career of Parental Choice by Elizabeth McRae

July 2014: The Case for Teacher Assistants in K-3 Classrooms by Alan Brown

June 2014: What are the limits of “parental choice” when the state is paying for it? by Karey Harwood

May 2014: Looming Battles Over the Schools by Steve Ford

May 2014: North Carolina Public School Teachers: Reactions to Teacher Evaluations and Merit Pay by Megan M. Oakes and Janna Siegel Robertson

Additional materials:

  • Teacher Evaluations and Merit Pay: Comments by County 
  • Link to the full report
  • Link to teacher evaluation comments
  • Link to merit pay comments

May 2014: Implications of the Elimination of Master’s Pay for Teachers in North Carolina by Meghan Manfra

April 2014: Beyond the Test Score Bump at Shamrock Gardens School by Amy Hawn Nelson

March 2014: How Underpaying Public School Teachers Disproportionately Harms Women by Katherine Mellen Charron

March 2014: What’s Up with Education Policy in North Carolina? by Helen F. Ladd and Edward B. Fiske

February, 2014: Maybe not such a blue moon: The substantial phenomenon of teacher moonlighting in North Carolina by Paul G. Fitchett and Tina L. Heafner

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