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19399
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Governor Pat McCrory's 2013 budget includes hiring 1,800 new teachers. McCrory supporters believe this is a progressive step in education reform. Skeptics claim 1,800 new teachers is an appeasement and only begin to make-up for the 4,300 teaching positions lost before and during the recession.
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36011
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The resident named for her father’s mule or a family member held values characteristic of Hatteras Island life, such as deep religious beliefs. Activities betraying the time in which she grew up included her mother sewing clothes for a family of twelve. Ways she made a personal mark on her world included opening her home to tourists and village newcomers alike. From such acts of hospitality, a life commonly lived might also be called an uncommon life.
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35992
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A true down homer was about more than just being born in a local town or having one’s name affiliated with a local building. What made Charlie Gray Sr. so included turning down job offers after graduation from North Carolina State College, so he could own a local grocery store. Being a down homer was also reflected in his promotion of education for the area. During his almost fifty year career as a school principal and teacher, he professed a hope for Hatteras Island to have a central accredited high school.
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36301
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An educational software and e-textbook company has proven to be a maven for North Carolina’s current educational system. Promoting Discovery Educations’ endeavor is a discussion of receptivity already found among today’s students and growing receptivity among educators for their products.
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4728
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The United States Coast Guard Station on Ocracoke Island closed in 1996 after nearly six decades of service. Now, through a $400,000 appropriation from the North Carolina General Assembly, the 10,000-square-foot building will be renovated for use as a professional development center for North Carolina teachers. The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teachers (NCCAT) at Cullowhee and the East Carolina University maritime studies program will manage the building.
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38246
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The former owner of one of the nation’s largest Oriental rug distributorships proves success is measured in more than revenue. Proceeds from Zaki Khalifa’s business donated to Akhuwat will partly fulfill his mission: to help Pakistani children have a better quality life. The other part of his mission involves a new career path: teaching Pakistani children at Akhuwat schools.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 38 Issue 10, October 2018,
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4738
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Joyce Elliott has been elected president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, and Carolyn McKinney, vice president. They will serve a one-year term from July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001.
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NCAE News Bulletin
(NoCar Oversize L 11 N822x), Vol. 31 Issue 1, Aug 2000,
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38532
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In preparation for next year, teachers are encouraged to include conservation in their lesson plans, regardless of what subject they teach.
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31240
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Laura Bilbro-Berry is a second-grade teacher at John C. Tayloe Elementary in Washington, and North Carolina’s 2000 Teacher of the Year. Bilbro-Berry has also received three Bright Ideas grants from Tideland Electric Membership Corporation. The grants helped to support Bilbro-Berry’s projects, which aimed to relate mathematics to everyday life, teach students about responsibility, and create an aquarium-based ecosphere.
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9297
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Daintry Allison became a schoolteacher in Beech Log, North Carolina in 1914. This article is an account of her eventful first year based on a taped interview the author conducted with her in Fairview on July 24, 1975.\r\n
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38202
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Among the life lessons the new Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools superintendent shared straddled the boundary between personal and professional. Examples of life lessons that impacted him professional and personally: people who inspired him to go into teaching; teaching philosophies such as the importance of building a rapport with students; what it is about teaching that inspires him to still be passionate about the profession.
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35642
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The passage of years wasn’t enough to dim the recollection of a sixth grade teacher like Miss Elva and classmate like Jeffro Tillerson. Though they were gone in a sense by the time of Beauchamp’s writing, they were still alive in memory, and worthy of written recollection.
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35990
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The former Maude Miller had an eventful career history. She was first a schoolteacher at what was called a "pay school" by Hatteras Island residents. She became the county welfare supervisor during the 1930s, gaining experience with the Depression’s effects on the Island. As a postmistress, she was second generation employee (her father served during the 1800s). During World War II, she was a Coastal Observer, with the Navy issuing a service certificate. Of her late husband, Estus Preston White, she noted their common work background in education, with his work on the Board. His local administrative roles included chairman of Methodist Sunday School and electric plant, as well as county administrative work as a commissioner.
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Jeanne Laws (Elkin City High School), Amy Orr Hobbs (Robbinsville High School), Vickie Honeycutt (Mt. Pleasant High School, Cabarrus County), and Judy Lewis (Grantham School) are Regional Teachers of the Year for 2000-2001. Among items the winners receive are a $5,000 stipend, software and computer training, and a one-week seminar at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Cullowhee.
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NCAE News Bulletin
(NoCar Oversize L 11 N822x), Vol. 31 Issue 1, Aug 2000,
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36085
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Alluding to an article in an earlier edition about Kate Beckwith, the author discusses his mother who he believed was influenced by East Carolina Teachers Training School’s first principal. In reference to his mother’s teaching career, he noted North Carolina’s contribution to the well-known schoolteacher stereotype. According to him, female teachers could not be married.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 9 Issue 2, Winter 2011,
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