- What don’t NC legislators get about public schools?RALEIGH (February 14, 2025) – What is it that North Carolina’s state legislators don’t get? Polling results from the Public School Forum of North Carolina showed tremendous support among North Carolina ...Read more
- Art Padilla: Big-time college sportsSeparating college athletic programs from the colleges they represent has been considered a capitulation, a surrender, like legalizing drugs because they can’t be controlled. But this may be the only ...Read more
- Holden Thorp: A ‘ruthless takedown of academia’By Holden Thorp EDITOR’S NOTE: Former UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp is now Editor-in-Chief of the Science Family of Journals. He posted this yesterday. WASHINGTON (February 11, 2025) – Late last ...Read more
- UNC-CH trustees: More listening, less talkingRALEIGH (February 12, 2025) – UNC Chapel Hill’s trustees have been warned before. But they obviously didn’t listen. • After repeated bouts of micromanagement and two trustees appearing in pre-arranged interviews with ...Read more
- Green on nixing Ed Department: “A dramatic negative impact”RALEIGH (February 13, 2025) – State Superintendent Mo Green doesn’t know what forms Donald Trump’s efforts to eliminate the federal Department of Education might take. But he does know it won’t ...Read more
- Teachers Talk: Erin WalshJACKSONVILLE (February 5, 2025) – Our latest installment of Teachers Talk features Erin Walsh, a math teacher at Onslow Early College High School. Walsh explains how she retired from teaching after ...Read more
- UNC board moves to clarify rules on campus protestsRALEIGH (February 5, 2025) – After raucous demonstrations by pro-Palestinian protesters last spring at UNC-Chapel Hill and, to a lesser extent, other UNC System campuses, System officials are moving to ...Read more
- Hans: Leuchtenburg ‘lit up the lecture halls’By Peter Hans President, University of North Carolina System RALEIGH (February 5, 2025) – Great teachers are great storytellers, and no one spun a scholarly yarn better than Bill Leuchtenburg. When I ...Read more
- UNC System signals flat tuition for 9th straight yearRALEIGH (January 30, 2025) – Contrary to a national narrative of skyrocketing tuition costs, the UNC System signaled clearly this week that it intends to hold tuition flat for the ...Read more
- Teaching Fellows build their numbersRALEIGH (January 30, 2025) – In a state with a severe teacher shortage,1 the NC Teaching Fellows made substantial gains this year, with 107% growth to a total of 575 students ...Read more