Education
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Meet Heather Smith: North Carolina’s 2024 Teacher Of The Year
Math teacher Heather Smith has been announced as the North Carolina Teacher of the Year for 2024. Here’s what you need to know about Smith.
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Biden unveils new plan for student debt relief
The president’s plan builds on existing debt cancellation efforts and would extend loan relief to more than 30 million borrowers.
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VIDEO: NC public school teacher says “go harder”
This🔥🔥 Taylor Evans, a public school teacher in Vance County, NC, had this advice for North Carolinians who are steamed about the chronic underfunding of public schools: “Go harder.” Evans was one of many educators who gathered over the weekend at a #DefendBlackHistory summit in Charlotte, organized by the advocacy group @colorofchange. Public schools in…
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78,000 public service workers get student loans canceled by Biden administration
Through improvements to the public service Loan Forgiveness Program, the Biden administration has canceled loans for more than 871,000 public service workers.
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VIDEO: Why It’s So Important To Know Your History
Becky Pringle, the president of the National Education Association, on how her upbringing— her father was a history teacher—helped her understand how the past is still impacting Americans today.
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Inside ‘the culture war’: An ideological battle on college campuses
Following conservative commentator Candace Owens’ March 6 visit to UNC, student journalists dig into how college campuses tackle the “culture wars.”
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Opinion: Rethinking public high schools would help us fill important STEM jobs locally
We need a robust, highly skilled workforce in STEM to support the influx of major infrastructure projects cropping up across the country. The way to fix this is by starting at the high school level.
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Biden proposes new student debt relief plan for North Carolina borrowers facing ‘hardship’
The new proposal will focus on providing debt relief to those with older loans or loans with large sums of interest; those with high-cost, unavoidable child care or health care expenses; borrowers who are highly likely to default; and others who face “financial hardship.”
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Charlotte teacher Justin Parmenter faces his breaking point in the fight for better NC schools
You might not know him, but your kid’s teacher does. Here’s how a public education champion survived a decade of Republican budget cuts and a major health scare.
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Multiple Durham schools close as teachers protest pay, education funding in NC
Wednesday’s school closings come after weeks of uncertainty in Durham. School staff are angry about pay and underfunding of public schools.
