Terry Stoops

Parents who are dissatisfied with Wake County’s high school math program, the MVP Math Curriculum, mounted a good-faith effort to convince the school board to adopt a math curriculum that addressed their concerns.  The News & Observer has the details. Wake County school leaders stood by the district’s use of…

The feds are taking a closer look at a Duke-UNC event that used taxpayer money as one of its funding sources. The U.S. Department of Education will investigate a Middle East conference co-sponsored by Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill to see if the schools’ consortium violated the terms and conditions…

The Annie E. Casey Foundation released the 2019 KIDS COUNT Data Book, a useful examination of measures of health, education, family and community, and economic well-being. According to the press release, “The Casey Foundation and NC Child point to areas of tremendous…

This WTVD story about the North Carolina Virtual Academy graduation ceremony is a must read. [Salutatorian Wyatt] Payne attended a brick-and-mortar school through 10th grade, but found the high school environment to be too distracting, and grew concerned about his dropping grades. That’s when he made the decision to transfer…

The N.C. Association of Educators admit that the May 1 teacher walkout was a failure, so they have launched a “Truth Tour.”  WNCT reports, On Tuesday, the North Carolina Association of Educators held a press conference in front of South Central High School in Pitt County. Educators from Pitt County alongside…

N.C. State professor Anna Egalite discusses the future of research on teacher-student race matching in light of the new Fordham Institute report that compares matching in North Carolina charter and district schools.  Dr. Egalite offers three takeaways from the study. First, we need to be pushing harder on…

I don’t agree with Nick Hanauer’s argument that the United States has a “rigged the economy in favor of wealthy people,” but Better Schools Won’t Fix America is right about the cult of “educationism.”  Hanauer writes, Long ago, I was captivated by a seductively intuitive idea,…

From The Robesonian, Thursday, June 5, 1919 (page 3)…