school in which children attend between primary school and upper secondary school
School districts in North Carolina, particularly Wake County Schools, have talked about creating a minimum grade/score for years. In some of the state’s public schools, the no-zero policy is an…
The College Foundation of North Carolina just selected the winner of the Victor E. Bell, Jr. (Is that anything like the Liver T. Bell?) scholarship. 193 middle schools each nominated…
View in your browser. Welcome This week, the subject of textbook funding has been brought to the fore by an article, and subsequent editorial, published in the News & Observer. …
A recent N&R letter to the editor on Guilford County Schools’ recent announcement of the
Hats off to Michael Jordan, who reportedly will announce today a $250,000 donation to Charlotte’s public schools for use in middle-school athletics programs. This donation is an example of the…
We await specific details of the topics covered in each grade, but the reorganization of middle grades social studies is a bit curious. Sixth Grade Current: South America and Europe…
You might remember a report from a few years back that decried the poor quality of middle-school science textbooks used across the country. Full of errors and lacking any coherent…
The middle school teacher who organized the already infamous “Obama Youth” display has now been suspended. It looks like legal action will be taken against the teacher, too.
Sixth graders at Erwin Middle School are learning groupthink. An intern from WCU spearheaded the project in which students, in groups of four or five, spent seven weeks writing a…
In the era of No Child Left Behind, students have not been discouraged from enrolling in courses other than language arts and mathematics. Both the number of class periods and…
A 15-year-old student assaults a teacher at Southeast High School. Most disturbing is this comment over at The Chalkboard: As a veteran teacher, this community better wake up. Our schools…
A new study of 45,000 North Carolina six-graders finds that those in middle schools did not do as well academically and had more discipline issues compared to six-graders in elementary…