RALEIGH (January 10, 2024) – After North Carolina started this school year with 3,500 teacher vacancies – only because schools hired 1,400 more unlicensed teachers than the year before1 – ...

RALEIGH (January 4, 2024) – The 2024 elections will be important to America – and to the future of American democracy. But they also will be vitally important to the future ...

RALEIGH (December 28, 2023) – It might seem strange to complain about underfunding of public education in a year when North Carolina had a $4.8 billion budget surplus.1 But it’s true.  In ...

RALEIGH (December 20, 2023) – Give Lee Roberts a chance. As sad and needless as the departure of Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz is, UNC-Chapel Hill and the state need Roberts to succeed ...

By Don Martin WINSTON-SALEM (December 7, 2023) – In 2011, I served as Superintendent of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. At that time, the school district focused on developing every school and ...

RALEIGH (December 13, 2023) – Higher Ed Works is now Public Ed Works.  Public Ed Works focuses on increasing residents’ knowledge of public education in North Carolina. We educate state residents about ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (December 8, 2023) – They drove him out. As Higher Ed Works Chair Paul Fulton told us more than two weeks ago, the NC General Assembly, the UNC ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: For the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, News & Observer Associate Opinion Editor Ned Barnett looked up a speech Kennedy gave at UNC-Chapel Hill in ...

CHAPEL HILL (November 29, 2023) – UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz is considering an offer to leave Chapel Hill to become president of Michigan State University.1 In a striking show of ...

RALEIGH (November 29, 2023) – We’re glad John Preyer doesn’t dispute the many ways public education has been damaged in North Carolina. Higher Ed Works Chair Paul Fulton authored a column ...