By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works RALEIGH (August 20, 2025) – It’s no secret that pay is a concern for North Carolina teachers – the latest report from the National Education Association ranks the state 43rd in the U.S. for average teacher salaries. It hasn’t always been this way. Based on a table from the… READ MORE
AI and degrees of uncertainty
By Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (August 20, 2025) – As unsettling headlines go, it’s hard to do better than “No Country for Young Grads.” That’s the title of a recent report from the Burning Glass Institute that highlights a worrisome decline in hiring for recent college graduates. The job market for young degree holders has… READ MORE
Lessons Learned: Why don’t we invest in our children?
By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works RALEIGH (August 14, 2025) – As students head back to the classroom, we’re diving deeper into the struggles educators are dealing with in our state. Over the next several weeks, we will publish a series of articles to address how legislative actions – and inaction – in North Carolina… READ MORE
Our public schools aren’t failing us; we’re failing them
By Tom Campbell RALEIGH (August 6, 2025) – For decades we have been told our public schools are failing. It comes largely from those on the conservative right. They are so adamant, so loud and so frequent that they have swayed public opinion. Pew reports 51 percent say the country’s K-12 education system is generally… READ MORE
Eroding and politicizing higher ed in NC
By Ed Samulski Cary Boshamer Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CHAPEL HILL (August 6, 2025) – As a teenager in South Carolina applying to college in the late 1950s, I saw the qualitative difference between the economies of the Carolinas; everyone attributed North Carolina’s superiority in all areas to… READ MORE
House budget is better for our teachers and kids
By Paul Fulton and David Rice Public Ed Works RALEIGH (July 31, 2025) – North Carolina has a problem. And state legislators – particularly the state Senate led by Phil Berger – have refused to recognize it for far too long. The state ranks 43rd in average teacher pay and 39th in starting teacher pay.1 That’s… READ MORE
UNC System tries to create an accreditor it likes
RALEIGH (July 25, 2025) – UNC System President Peter Hans on Thursday defended the system’s efforts to create an accreditation agency it likes. For decades, the UNC System has had its 16 universities reviewed by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), which accredits colleges in 11 Southern states. But after… READ MORE
The rubric-fication of accreditation
By Art Padilla When Vermont Connecticut Royster, the two-time Pulitzer winner to whom President Reagan awarded the Medal of Freedom, retired to North Carolina, I jumped at any opportunity to see him. Vermont Royster served for 13 years as the renowned executive editor of the Wall Street Journal and afterwards as Kenan Professor in journalism… READ MORE
China and the EU poaching our top talent?
CHAPEL HILL (July 18, 2025) – As the United States reduces investments in scientific research, our competitors around the globe are taking notice – and looking to poach our talent. “When faculty investigators and top talent see that they may not be able to sustain their research in the U.S., it creates a competitive bid… READ MORE
Art Padilla: Tone deafness uninterrupted
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH (July 18, 2025) – The financial and political attacks on universities are both extreme and broad-based. The collateral damage being done to our nation’s scientific capabilities is still impressively underestimated. The latest chapter in the decline of American science is the US Housing Department’s (HUD) brazen take-over, without previous warning, of the National… READ MORE
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