RALEIGH (September 1, 2022) – More than 1.3 million students started the public school year in North Carolina this week.  Yet more than 4,400 teachers who should have been at the ...

By Buck Goldstein and Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (September 1, 2022) –Toward the end of the 2020 book Deaths of Despair, about the startling decline in life expectancy that began in ...

WILMINGTON (August 24, 2022) – The science of our coast is, as you might expect, quite complicated. And it affects many, many of our lives, UNC Wilmington Chancellor Aswani Volety ...

THOMASVILLE (August 24, 2022) – We don’t often think about what’s needed to work in a zoo or aquarium. But Davidson-Davie Community College is one school that offers instruction in ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK (August 11, 2022) – There were lots of nice words at the NC Chamber’s annual Education and the Workforce Conference last week – lots of great ideas ...

Above: Dr. Laura B. Leatherwood, president of Blue Ridge Community College, discusses workforce development strategies with state and college leaders. (Photo by: Benjamin Rickert, July 2022) By Dr. Laura B. Leatherwood ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: With school set to resume soon across North Carolina with thousands of teaching positions still vacant1 and a new pay plan being floated for K-12 teachers, Don Martin, ...

WILMINGTON (August 3, 2022) – We don’t often get to ask both an educator from Brazil and an educator from India what they think of U.S. higher education. But our interviews ...

(August 4, 2022) RALEIGH – More than 50 North Carolina business leaders asked the NC Supreme Court last week to uphold a lower court’s order last fall directing state officials ...

RALEIGH (July 27, 2022) – As the 9th-largest state in the country, and with companies like Apple, Google, Fujifilm Diosynth, Boom Supersonic and Toyota headed here, North Carolina simply needs ...