Education Matters – One-on-One with UNC President Margaret Spellings

Topic:  One-on-one with UNC President Margaret Spellings

UNC President Margaret Spellings discusses Charlottesville and Silent Sam, her first year on the job, college affordability, UNC’s state support, teacher preparation and more

Guests include:

Margaret Spellings, President, University of North Carolina

RESOURCES

Charlottesville

Resources for Educators in Wake of Charlottesville
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/08/14/543390148/resources-for-educators-to-use-the-wake-of-charlottesville

Will Durham schools be next to ban Confederate flags, other ‘symbols of hate’?
https://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/counties/orange-county/article167551272.html\

Hundreds protest at UNC Chapel Hill Silent Sam monument
https://www.wral.com/hundreds-protest-at-unc-chapel-hill-silent-sam-monument-2-arrested/16898155/

Teacher Prep Enrollment Up
https://wunc.org/post/enrollment-nc-teaching-programs-inches-back#stream/0

Charter Support Plummets
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/08/15/public-support-for-charter-schools-plummets-poll.html?cmp=soc-twitter-shr 

Interview Segments

Spellings Op-ed:  State funding at best in a decade
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article163003863.html

UNC leader looks back on her tenure at the one-year mark
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article135804428.html

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