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/PRNewswire/ -- The Knowles Teacher Initiative today announced the members of its 2021 Cohort of Teaching Fellows. The new cohort is made up of 31 teachers...

The University of Georgia has named its Higher Education Institute for Louise McBee, a former UGA administrator and member of the Georgia House of Representatives who died earlier this year.

WNC behind state average in educator diversity Wednesday, April 28, 2021 A report issued by the DRIVE task force says N.C.’s educators don’t sufficiently reflect classroom diversity. File photo North Carolina has about 1.5 million public school students, and according to a report from the Department of Public Instruction, 52.3 percent are minority students, while only 20.5 percent of teachers are minorities.  It’s a disparity Gov. Roy Cooper hopes to improve with the creation of the DRIVE (Develop a Representative and Inclusive Vision for Education) Task Forc...

Two Knowles Fellows Achieve National Board Certification Mathematics and Science Educators Earn Advanced Teaching Credential News provided by Share this article Share this article MOORESTOWN, N.J., April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Knowles Teacher Initiative today announced that two of its Fellows achieved National Board Certification, an advanced teaching credential that demonstrates their proven impact on student learning and achievement, in the 2019–2020 cycle. National Board Certification involves completion of a rigorous, performance-based, peer-review process defined by the Five Co...

Challenges and opportunities for diversity in North Carolina schools Commitment determines outcomes for students   CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Rhonda Dillingham is executive director of the North Carolina Association for Public Charter Schools. There’s a saying that “the rain will show you where the holes in the roof are” and that couldn’t be more true over the past eight months in North Carolina and around the country. The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the forefront the challenges that all schools face in our state — from public to private, from charter to district-run. Among those challeng...