The National Education Association’s 2022 “Rankings and Estimates” report included an average teacher salary figure that was significantly lower than the $55,905 average reported by the North Carolina Department of…
On Sunday, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Association of Educators (CMAE) held a press conference to urge lawmakers to address the teacher shortage by raising salaries. The problem is that there is no…
North Carolinians do not need WalletHub to tell us that North Carolina teachers have fared well since 2014. Several state-level reports and studies reflect the efforts of the NC General…
According to a press release sent by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI), School crime rates, suspensions, and dropouts all went down last year, according to new data from school districts and…
This week, the NC Division of Non-Public Education released home school estimates for the 2018-19 school year. Overall, 142,037 children attended 90,688 home schools last school year, which is a 4.6 percent increase in…
In an excellent Education Next blog post, Dr. Brian Kisida and Olivia Piontek respond to claims by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project and others that school segregation has worsened. The authors offer…
Kris Nordstrom of the N.C. Justice Center spends a great deal of time and effort critiquing my cost-of-living adjustments to the average teacher pay figures released by the National Education…
The U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), released the annual Digest of Education Statistics report today. The report includes data up to 2016. Some of the more…
Estimating the number of home-school students is more art than science. While North Carolina’s Division of Non-Public Education takes a systematic approach to counting the number of home schools and…
View in your browser. Welcome Despite slight overall increases last year, school crime, suspension, and dropout rates have been on the decline in North Carolina over the last five years. …
I am not trying to pick on either school or school district and I do not use the word “crisis” for effect. When I created the scatterplot of economically disadvantaged…
View in your browser. Welcome In coming weeks, expect new and exciting changes to all research newsletters, including this one. For now, you are stuck with the format adopted nearly…