Cherry Crayton

Nov 10, 2017

NBC News: When College Classrooms Become Ideologically Segregated, Everyone Suffers

NBC News features a report Stephen R. Porter and Paul D. Umbach, experts in education policy and professors at the NC State College of Education, led a decade ago that assessed factors that predict undergraduate major choice by surveying undergraduates at an unnamed elite liberal arts college. The researchers found, after controlling for many variables, that politics were a powerful predictor of major, rivaled only by personality. 

Nov 9, 2017

EdNC: What Does It Mean to be an ‘Effective’ Teacher Preparation Program?

Our obligation is to prepare the very best teachers for our state, so how do we know if we're doing that? Michael Maher asks in a piece he wrote for EdNC. Maher is the assistant dean for professional education and accreditation at the NC State College of Education and a member of the North Carolina Professional Educator Preparation and Standards Commission. 

Nov 9, 2017

3 NC State Education Doctoral Students Receive A.M. Witherspoon Scholarships

Kendrick Alston, Jemilia Davis and LaTeisha Jeannis -- all doctoral students in the Department of Educational Leadership, Human Development and Policy -- have each received 2017 A.M. Witherspoon Scholarships for Graduate Students from the Black Alumni Society -- the most of any college at NC State. 

Nov 7, 2017

The EvoLLLution: Using Online Competency-Based Programming to Create Pathways for Lateral Entry Employees

Alison Winzeler discusses Pathway to Practice North Carolina, a competency-based program designed to help lateral-entry teachers hired by North Carolina schools earn their teaching certifications, in an interview with The EvoLLLution. Winzeler is the coordinator of Pathway to Practice, director of NC TEACH and alternative licensure director at the NC State College of Education. 

Nov 1, 2017

METRC to Host Grand Opening Expo Monday, Nov. 13

As part of American Education Week, celebrate METRC's revitalized space, meet its new team and make your mark in METRC as we step forward into the next 90 years of the NC State College of Education. 

Nov 1, 2017

NC State Education to Celebrate American Education Week Nov. 13-17

The NC State College of Education will hold over a dozen events the week of Nov. 13-17 to celebrate American Education Week. See the schedule of activities. 

Nov 1, 2017

Super Bowl Champion Bill Cowher ’79: Why I Chose Education

Bill Cowher '79 shares why he chose to major in education and how the degree helped him coach the Pittsburgh Steelers to the 2006 Super Bowl. Watch his story, and share your own. 

Oct 26, 2017

Business Insider: Leaders Join Forces to Help Solve North Carolina’s Teacher Shortage

NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill are teaming up to launch a joint Competency-based Education program -- Pathway to Practice NC -- which will be the first of its kind in the region, designed to certify thousands of people to teach in schools across North Carolina. 

Oct 26, 2017

“Data Alone is Not Power. Data Plus Thinking is Power.”

Professor Hollylynne Lee has developed a series of online courses and teacher education modules that are helping pre-service and in-service K-12 teachers bring statistics and probability to life in the classroom. 

Oct 24, 2017

The Guardian: Want Your Child to be an Engineer? Give Them a Falcon or Go Stargazing

Hobbies such as beekeeping or model building are the key to a technical career, a study co-authored by Elysa Corin '12 MED, '15 PHD, Professor Gail Jones and Gina Childers '14 PHD finds.