The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) just released their 2012 State Policy Yearbook. Here is the breakdown of the grades for North Carolina:
Area 1: Delivering well prepared teachers: D-
Area 2: Expanding the pool of teachers: D+
Area 3: Identifying effective teachers: C-
Area 4: Retaining effective teachers: C
Area 5: Exiting ineffective teachers: D-
Overall: D+
Our neighbors to the south, Georgia and South Carolina, earned a C and C- respectively. Tennessee (B-) and Florida (B) had the highest grades in the Southeast.
