NC Teaching Fellows Coverage

Editorial: Action needed to narrow N.C.'s growing urban-rural education divide

Friday, March 24, 2023 -- Local school systems are being forced to take matters into their own hands to retain the teachers on staff as well as attract others to fill the vacancies. Unfortunately, this approach will likely only exacerbate the documented vast differences in the quality of education children have access to, depending on where in North Carolina they live.

MARY ANN WOLF: A qualified, well-prepared teacher in every classroom

Monday, March 1, 2021 -- Teachers provide our children with the academic, social and emotional learning opportunities they need to become global citizens with the tools to succeed in college and career. Research confirms teachers are the number one school-related factor impacting student learning outcomes. We must ensure that we have a qualified and well-prepared teacher in every classroom, and provide teachers with the working conditions and resources they need.

Cooper signs dozen bills, including one to widen Teaching Fellows program

Bills signed would also boost fraud detection at the state unemployment office and relax rules on community college program for state inmates.

Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter

Cooper signs dozen bills, including one to widen Teaching Fellows program

'Nothing's really changed': NC Teaching Fellows still enrolling mostly white female students

A North Carolina program that recruits top students to become teachers by providing college tuition help has once again enrolled mostly white, mostly female students for the 133 spots this year, according to demographic data reviewed by WRAL News.

Kelly Hinchcliffe, WRAL education reporter

'Nothing's really changed': NC Teaching Fellows still enrolling mostly white female students

Editorial: Fix N.C. public schools' lack of teacher diversity, turnover now

Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019 -- Rather than looking for ways to close troubling gaps in diversity between public school students and teachers along with increases in teacher turnover, the N.C. General Assembly has taken a cleaver to the efforts to fix them and done little or nothing to replace those programs. Particularly troubling, is that much of this was done out of pure ideological spite.

On the Record, 1/26: NC's teacher diversity gap

Brad Johansen speaks with WRAL's Lena Tillett and Kelly Hinchcliffe about their project about the state's teacher diversity gap and with Carl Tyson, a Wake County PE teacher.

Edgar Zamora: 2007 NC Teaching Fellow

Kelly Hinchcliffe, WRAL education reporter

Douglas McCullough: 2006 NC Teaching Fellow

Kelly Hinchcliffe, WRAL education reporter

North Carolina Teaching Fellows men of color: Where are they now?

WRAL News reached out to dozens of men of color who were part of the North Carolina Teaching Fellows program to find out why they applied, what the experience was like and whether they have stayed in education.

Kelly Hinchcliffe, WRAL education reporter