Sherry Thurston ’70 didn’t let a hurricane sink her Sneads Ferry art gallery
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2019 @ 3:43 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Wake County parent Dina Bartus garnered national attention recently for exposing a controversial assignment given to her child and other 10th–graders at Heritage High School in Wake Forest.
Published: Sunday, September 29th, 2019 @ 3:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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"Hurt people hurt people." That's how one middle school principal summed up the origins of bullying for me.
Published: Saturday, April 28th, 2018 @ 10:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Good News in Teacher Turnover Report
Published: Monday, January 15th, 2018 @ 3:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina continues to lead the nation in the number of teachers who have earned certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, the highest credential in the teaching profession
Published: Tuesday, January 9th, 2018 @ 2:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Students interested in pursuing a teaching career in the fields of science, technology, math or special education can now apply online for the North Carolina Teaching Fellows program
Published: Friday, December 8th, 2017 @ 10:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A new initiative in North Carolina, Teaching Scholars Award Program, aims to encourage young teachers to work in rural areas in exchange for financial rewards and enrichment opportunities
Published: Tuesday, October 17th, 2017 @ 8:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University's youngest students got their first look inside the ECU Lab School during open house on Aug. 24
Published: Tuesday, August 29th, 2017 @ 3:18 pm
By: ECU News Services
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I've noticed breathtaking naivete displayed through forum letters and articles recently.
Published: Saturday, July 1st, 2017 @ 7:18 am
By: Diane Rufino
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A host of luminaries led by UNC system President Margaret Spellings used a Thursday press conference to announce a newly branded North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program
Published: Monday, March 13th, 2017 @ 9:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Here is a dirty little secret: I am a teacher at a community college, but I have never taken an education course. The same is true for most of my colleagues at the college level
Published: Wednesday, November 30th, 2016 @ 2:51 am
By: John William Pope Center
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East Carolina University is one of eight UNC system schools identified to create and operate a laboratory school to help under-achieving elementary students perform better.
Published: Thursday, November 10th, 2016 @ 5:15 am
By: ECU News Services
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One thing I've learned in my years of teaching in the U.S. is that many young Americans are moral relativists. As students in elementary and secondary schools, they were taught that there is no moral fact of the matter
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 12:22 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) announced that he secured an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) requiring the Department of Defense to enter memoranda of agreements with local or regional higher education institutions that offer degrees in allopathic or osteopathic...
Published: Wednesday, May 18th, 2016 @ 10:47 pm
By: Chris Downey
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An ECU Honors College student and triple major Daniel Franch has been named a recipient of an English teaching assistant award from the highly-competitive Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Published: Tuesday, April 19th, 2016 @ 8:21 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Despite the claims of some, North Carolina is not a "net exporter of teachers."
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2016 @ 2:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In an effort to observe innovative teaching methods in action at a high-energy campus, Governor Pat McCrory visited students and teachers at Allen Jay Preparatory Academy.
Published: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016 @ 7:30 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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American higher education is a grand mess. But there is purpose in the apparent chaos of public universities; they are designed to protect free inquiry by equal citizens into the wide universe of subjects that concern a growing and vibrant country.
Published: Sunday, June 7th, 2015 @ 1:19 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Earlier this month, Dr. Alisa Chapman, Vice President for Academic and University Programs for the University of North Carolina System, briefed members of the NC State Board of Education on the background, demographics, and qualifications of the state's teaching profession.
Published: Sunday, May 31st, 2015 @ 6:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two of the state's most powerful lawmakers are perplexed that their education reform bill passed unanimously in the House but immediately was assigned to the Senate's Ways and Means Committee, a graveyard for legislation.
Published: Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 @ 4:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The taxpayers of North Carolina have historically made a tremendous commitment to education, and the next biennium will continue that legacy. More than 54 percent, or over $12 billion of our General Fund spending will be directed to education in each year of the biennium.
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2015 @ 3:08 am
By: Chris Downey
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments
Published: Saturday, January 31st, 2015 @ 9:32 pm
By: Chris Downey
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East Carolina University has earned higher education's top honor for community engagement. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching announced Jan. 7 that ECU received the 2015 Community Engagement Classification.
Published: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 @ 4:29 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Original documents are much more valuable than textbooks when it comes to teaching students about key issues in American history.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 3:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When legislators and officials of the University of North Carolina and legislators consider costs, they prefer to focus on minor operational functions - such as heating bills. But that is mere nibbling around the edges.
Published: Thursday, September 4th, 2014 @ 9:35 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A long sacrosanct pedagogical principle is that group projects and small group learning are indispensable to learning.
Published: Thursday, July 17th, 2014 @ 8:10 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A lot of dollars are riding on how many courses professors in the University of North Carolina system teach (or how many they are perceived to teach). Roughly half of the UNC budget consists of professors' salaries.
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 8:51 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Every field of study has its standard way of teaching it to students. Science is mostly taught through lectures and labs. Literature and philosophy are mostly taught through classroom discussion. And English composition is mostly taught through students writing essays and bringing them to class...
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 7:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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