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May 23, 2024

An Unforgettable Adventure: Meet Reginald Simon, MSA ‘24

Educator Reginald Simon is genuinely passionate about developing the leadership potential and self-esteem of the young people he teaches, mentors, advises and coaches.  As an early-career language arts teacher and athletic coach for public middle and high school students, Simon quickly realized his own potential for fueling the fires of student success through leadership and… 

May 23, 2024

My Student Experience: Graduate Assistants in University Housing Make Campus Feel Like Home

Each semester, thousands of students call NC State's campus home and, whether they live in Bowen or Bragaw, Sullivan or Syme, their experiences are shaped by the College of Education students who work as graduate assistants in University Housing. 

May 23, 2024

Briana Gaines Joining College of Education as Assistant Teaching Professor of Counseling and Counselor Education

Briana Gaines will join NC State’s College of Education as an assistant teaching professor of counseling and counselor education, beginning Aug. 16, 2024. Currently, Gaines is a clinical assistant professor of counselor education at the University of Florida. 

May 23, 2024

Devin Kearns Named Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Early Literacy

Devin Kearns will join NC State’s College of Education as its inaugural Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Early Literacy, effective Aug. 16, 2024. The Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Early Literacy was established by longtime NC State supporters Ann and Jim Goodnight to support the activities of a professor who focuses on teaching the science of reading in early literacy. 

May 21, 2024

Why Is It Important for Students to Understand How Scientific Decisions are Made? ‘If You Don’t Understand How Scientists Decide What Makes One Claim More Believable, Then It’s Actually Very Hard to Understand Science,’ Says STEM Education Department Head William Sandoval

For William Sandoval, head of the Department of STEM Education in the NC State College of Education, when preparing K-12 students to engage with real-world science, developing the skills to become career scientists is not nearly as important as helping them to engage with the science that will occur all around them in their everyday lives. 

May 21, 2024

WCNC: North Carolina Schools Are More Segregated Now Than 40 Years Ago, Study Finds

A study by N.C. State shows schools here are more segregated now than in the 1980s. Researchers behind the study say the state's voucher program for private schools and the recent growth in charter schools are largely to blame. 

May 20, 2024

The News and Observer: NC’s Public Schools Are Now More Racially Segregated Than They Were in the 1980s

Friday marked 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic Brown vs. Board of Education decision that triggered decades of efforts to integrate schools. But N.C. State researchers say the data shows North Carolina’s public schools are more racially segregated now than they were in the late 1980s. 

May 20, 2024

ABC11: 70 Years After Brown v Board, Segregation Remains in NC Public Schools

According to "Can Our Schools Capture the Educational Gains of Diversity? North Carolina School Segregation, Alternatives and Possible Gains", a joint study between researchers at N.C. State University and UCLA, even as North Carolina's public schools have become more racially diverse, they are more segregated now than they were 30 years ago. 

May 20, 2024

WRAL: NC Schools Are Struggling With Segregation 70 Years After Brown v. Board, New Research Shows

While fewer North Carolina schools have overwhelmingly white student bodies, more Black students are attending schools that are overwhelmingly made up of students of color, according to a study released this month by researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of California, Los Angeles. 

May 17, 2024

Literacy and Community Initiative’s 5th Annual Reading Celebration Highlights Refugee Stories Through Art, Writing

With the support of a Catalyst Grant from the Friday Institute and the College of Education, the Literacy and Community Initiative (LCI) led a yearlong trauma-informed writing and art program for RHP refugee students that culminated April 29 during LCI’s fifth annual reading celebration and art show. It was RHP’s first art show with LCI, held at the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA).