Recently, in a 7-5 vote, the North Carolina State Board of Education accepted new standards for social studies education in the state. The process of adopting new standards began before the pandemic forced changes in education, has been vetted by many consultants and state educators, and is set to take effect.
Education Superintendent Catherine Truitt included a preamble to the standards which states, âThe North Carolina Board of Education believes that our collective social studies standards must reflect the nation s diversity and that the successes, contributions, and struggles of multiple groups and individuals should be included.â This is a fair statement and certainly a goal of all social studies teachers wherever they are.
Ann Marie Gunter; World Languages Consultant
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North Carolina Public Schools serve approximately 1.5 million students in grades K–12, in 115 school districts and over 160 charter schools. Enrollment in Chinese language instruction has grown significantly in traditional and immersion classrooms as well as online. This profile describes the growth of Chinese language instruction in the state and the steps taken by the State Board of Education, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, and other state partners that have contributed to that growth.
In the 2005–2006 school year, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction was asked by a US senator to provide a summary of Chinese instruction available in public schools in the state. The answer was 323 students in two districts; in 2014, there were 12,273 students, and Chinese has the 4th highest enrollment of the 17 languages offered. Chinese immersion programs are offered in 10 programs in 7 dis
WADESBORO An Anson County native is bringing her diverse education background to Scotland County as she begins her new role as the district’s superintendent.
The Scotland County Board of Education announced Takeda LeGrand as the new superintendent on Nov. 22 and she took her position on the first of 2021.
LeGrand was born and raised in Wadesboro, graduated from Anson High School in 1999 and started her teaching career back in Anson.
After graduating from UNC Greensboro, she returned home to Anson County with the hopes of working with a nurse ministry program as a health educator at the Anson Community Hospital after she interned with their church program. The program was responsible for going out into the community to try and improve the quality and outcome of rural healthcare.
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UNMARRIED LGBTQ PEOPLE CAN NOW FILE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROTECTION ORDERS: LGBTQ people in North Carolina can no longer be prevented from getting domestic violence protective orders, the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. North Carolina had been the only state in the country to withhold emergency protections from people seeking protection from abuse by a same-sex partner, The News & Observer reported in 2019. That kind of protection is offered to couples of the opposite sex, and to married and divorced same-sex couples, but not for same-sex couples who are dating or who used to date. But that ban is unconstitutional, the appeals court ruled in a 2-1 opinion Thursday. Attorney General Josh Stein and Gov. Roy Cooper, both Democrats, had previously called the law unconstitutional and signed briefs supporting the plaintiff in this case.
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