Hannah AstinStaff Writer With a new multi-million-dollar grant, UNC-Greensboro’s (UNCG) School of Education will create a new teaching program focused on bringing high-tech thinking to two rural North Carolina counties. The five-year, $6.1 million grant comes from the Teacher Quality… Read More ›
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Gauging The Climate: Should Schools Educate Students on Global Warming?
Elliott VoorheesStaff Writer It is hard to think of a more pressing and widely relevant situation in our time than climate change. This environmental crisis is literally changing the landscape of our world and it will only continue to do… Read More ›
Betsy DeVos At Center of Special Olympics Budget Outcry
Peyton UpchurchStaff Writer Over the last three fiscal years and three budget proposals, President Donald Trump has proposed cuts to public education spending to Congress. These proposals have, over the last two years and as a trend across the last… Read More ›
To Spend, or Not to Spend
Megan Pociask Staff Writer It is no secret that recently, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had to defend the Trump administration’s attempt to make significant cuts to multiple student programs, including a nearly $18 million cut towards government funding of the… Read More ›
Life After Education, An Allegory: Uncertainty and What To Do
Benjamin Pulgar-Guzman Staff Writer A child is born in the United States every 8 seconds. There is one immigrant that arrives in the United States every 29 seconds. Both the child and the immigrant will go through various experiences in… Read More ›
Chicago Schools To Lose Funding After Mishandling of Sexual Assault
Antonio Alamillo Staff Writer Within the past few years, sexual assault and harassment have become some of the most pressing issues in the United States. The news has been filled with one scandal after another, bringing to the surface how… Read More ›
NC Board of Education’s Gridlock May End as New Seats Are Up For Grabs
Laura Ashley Powell Staff Writer Two members of North Carolina’s top Board of Education, Bill Cobey and Becky Taylor, will be leaving their positions despite the fact that their terms do not end until next year. Due to their resignations,… Read More ›
We Deserve Better Sex Education
Brianna Wilson Staff Writer While growing up in the South, there were many things I have come to enjoy and even love; drinking sweet tea, walking in the woods, playing in a creek, eating grits and using a Southern… Read More ›
North Carolina’s School Choice Sector Yields Poor Results
Antonio Alamillo Staff Writer Over the past decade, North Carolina’s education system has been one of the state’s biggest concerns. It is notorious for having broadly-defined legislation and underfunding certain programs, which has led to numerous accounts of fraud and… Read More ›