RALEIGH (May 16, 2025) – If there’s any doubt about where North Carolina’s health-care needs are worst, they’re in rural North Carolina. UNC System President Peter Hans highlighted the NC General ...

By Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (May 16, 2025) – When the historian Kathleen Duval first started teaching at UNC Chapel Hill back in 2003, she wanted her undergraduates to examine some ...

By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works SYLVA (May 14, 2025) – North Carolina school district leaders on the state line are being forced to come up with creative methods to hire teachers ...

By Heather Koons Public Schools First NC RALEIGH (May 10, 2025) – In another blow to public schools, a majority of House members voted this week to lower the high school mathematics ...

By Art Padilla WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH (May 10, 2025) – In his multi-volume A Study of History, Arnold Toynbee argued that civilizations die from “suicide” and not from “murder.” Decline comes from ...

By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works HALIFAX (May 9, 2025) – School leaders across North Carolina are finding ways to cope with recruiting as the latest report released by the National Education ...

By Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (May 9, 2025) – Staring at a phone for eight hours a day is bad, and not just because of the ill effects on test scores ...

RALEIGH (May 1, 2025) – What will it take to make state legislators wake up? The National Education Association released its annual report on teacher pay this week, which found that ...

WINSTON-SALEM (May 1, 2025) – It’s a forehead-slapper. At a time when North Carolina desperately needs more public school teachers, the Trump administration cut them off. In February, the U.S. Department ...

By Peter Hans President, University of North Carolina System RALEIGH (May 1, 2025) – For more than 70 years, federal funding for university research has been a patriotic bargain and a core ...