The North Carolina Educational Policy Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has recently published its report on the rise of violence in our schools.
Seventeen legislative bills relating to education came before the General Assembly during the last session. The North Carolina Association of Educators grades the legislators on their voting records regarding these bills.
In 1994 North Carolina Association of Educators Good Idea Grants helped to fund a parent resource center, a reading incentives program, and a read-in/sleep-in.
A $2.59 million federal grant awarded to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro will enable middle and high school level math and science teachers to learn how to incorporate modern technological tools into their classroom instruction.
The North Carolina Association of Educators is lauding members of the North Carolina House of Representatives for their support of items on the association's agenda.
Rose Marie Lowry-Townsend was elected to her third term as president of the North Carolina Association of Educators. She served as Association president in 1991-92 and in 1993-94.
NCAE President Cecil S. Banks offers a sterling Legislative Report Card on behalf of the association. The General Assembly was graded on its attention to three main educational goals: High Standards (A); High Salaries (A+); and High Tech (A).
Inclusion, the placement of students with disabilities in regular classrooms instead of separate ones, has met with both success and failure. Schools experiencing success are those with school-wide commitment to the idea among faculty and staff.
Fourteen outstanding, innovative programs in the state's public schools, like Burlington City Schools' Impact Program, have been named Governor's Program of Excellence recipients for 1994 by Governor James B. Hunt, Jr.
Mintie S. Saintsing, a teacher of academically gifted and learning disabled students at Piney Creek Elementary School in Alleghany County, is the 1995 winner of the Terry Sanford Award for Creativity in Teaching and Administration.
Educational legislation passed by the 1995 General Assembly was rated by educators from \"A\" to \"Incomplete\" for areas ranging from classroom needs to school facilities.