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Aug 22, 2018

EdNC: NC State Education’s New Undergraduate Student Enrollment Jumps 29 Percent

The NC State College of Education begins the 2018-19 academic year with an expected 500 new undergraduate and graduate students—the college’s largest group of incoming students in over eight years. New students include an expected 141 first-year and transfer undergraduate students, which is a 29 percent increase in the number of new undergraduates from the same time last fall. 

Aug 20, 2018

Education Week: Three Questions About Education Leadership Research

NC State Education Assistant Professor Anna Egalite and Assistant Professor Timothy Drake take on a commonly cited statistic about the impact a principal can have on student achievement by brainstorming three big-picture questions to ask about school leaders in the first of a series of guest blog posts for Education Week. 

Aug 17, 2018

The 74: Why Diversity Matters

Kevin Mahnken references NC State Education researcher Anna Egalite's work on how the race of teachers impacts student achievement in an article for The 74, a non-profit, non-partisan news site covering education in America. 

Aug 13, 2018

Counseling Today: Counselors as Innovators

NC State Education Assistant Professor Adria Dunbar encourages counselors to turn frustrations at work into innovative solutions for the counseling profession in this column for Counseling Today, a publication of the American Counseling Association. 

Aug 6, 2018

Education Matters: Teens, Social Media and Fake News

NC State Education Assistant Professor Adria Dunbar and Associate Professor Meghan Manfra talk about what parents and educators need to know to help students navigate social media and fake news in a new digital media landscape on this week's episode of Education Matters. 

Aug 3, 2018

EdNC.org: How NELA Prepares Principals to Lead N.C. Schools

On this episode of EdTalk, host Alex Granados talks with Bonnie Fusarelli, professor of educational leadership and educational evaluation and policy analysis and director of the Northeast Leadership Academy (NELA). NELA helps prepare principals for their role as leaders in North Carolina schools. 

Aug 1, 2018

EdNC.org: Wolfpack WORKS Gets Ready to Bolster Literacy Efforts

In this episode of EdTalk, host Alex Granados talks with Paola Sztajn, NC State College of Education's associate dean for research and Innovation and co-principal investigator for Wolfpack WORKS. Wolfpack WORKS is an offshoot of the Read to Achieve program and will help first- and second-year, K-2 teachers better provide literacy instruction to their students. 

Jul 30, 2018

Education Matters: Leadership Conversations

NC State College of Education Dean Mary Ann Danowitz explains how a new partnership with Johnston County Public Schools and Johnston Community College that will create a guided pathway to prepare teachers for Johnston County on this week's episode of Education Matters. 

Jul 27, 2018

Video: Google Talks Jamboard with NC State Education

Google talks with Kerri Brown Parker, director of the Media and Education Technology Resource Center (METRC), about how NC State Education uses Jamboard -- Google's interactive whiteboard -- to encourage collaboration among students and researchers. 

Jul 5, 2018

Wilson Times: Science Classroom Funding Can Impact Student Interest in STEM Majors

Interactive math and science activities can increase student interest in STEM majors after high school, but educators need appropriate funding to implement relevant hands-on instruction in their classrooms, according to Emily Cayton's dissertation research. In this Wilson Times article, the recent science education graduate reveals what she discovered while studying science classroom funding and why it matters.