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UNC School of Education

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'An uphill fight': Black doctoral students feel unsupported by University

By Natalie McCormick | August 22

Some Black graduate students, such as Simone Wilson and Daniel Johnson, say they don't feel supported by the University. Data from UNC Graduate School's ...

'We are change agents': UNC program trains future rural school counselors

By Madison Gagnon | June 21

K-2 Tar Heels: UNC opens elementary laboratory school in Roxboro

By Natalie Varma | August 29

Patricia Harris named UNC's senior director of education, operations and initiatives

By Aisha Baiocchi | January 18

The UNC School of Education offers a combined undergraduate and graduate degree, undergraduate minor, doctoral degree and post baccalaureate degree. They prepare students for teaching anywhere from early childhood to higher education. The school was formally established as a professional school in 1913. It has the third largest number of alumni at nearly 20,000.

Maters of Arts in Educational Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Education majors speak out about UNC's lack of teacher licensure programs

By Marin Wolf | March 24

Several North Carolina universities offer undergraduate education programs that lead directly to licensure, including Appalachian State University, North ...

UNC professor leading project to develop high school science lessons on COVID-19

By Rachel Crumpler | June 9

UNC School of Education Professor Troy Sadler is leading a one-year research project in partnership with researchers from the University of Missouri-Columbia ...

'A rather unique year': UNC to add three new majors this fall

By Rachel Crumpler | May 26

The process for establishing a new major under the UNC System is extensive, but UNC will begin enrolling students in three this fall: medical anthropology, ...

Meet the deans of UNC's nationally ranked graduate schools

By Lauren Westbrook | March 20

U.S. News & World Report ranked graduate programs throughout the United States. How did UNC's graduate schools fall on the leaderboard?

New masters program within School of Education aims to set graduates apart

By Noah Dolgoff | February 10

The Educational Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship program gives students the opportunity to learn in the School of Education, the Kenan-Flagler ...

Bev Perdue speaks in the first event of the UNC School of Journalism’s Women in the Media Leadership Series.

Former N.C. Gov. Perdue to be chairperson of National Assessment Governing Board

By Aislinn Antrim | November 8

New chairperson to the National Assessment Governing Board, Beverly Perdue, looks forward to closing the nation’s achievement gap and ensuring that ...

Peabody Hall houses UNC's School of Education.

School of Education master's program integrates technology, entrepreneurship

By Casey Quam | February 28

University’s Master’s Program in Educational Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship helps students answer the question of how education and technology ...

How will the Trump administration's new budget proposal affect education?

By Cate Byrne | February 15

 “I feel it’s a rollback of a lot of fairly successful programs — programs that support kids by providing educational access both in the K-12 ...

N.C. Teaching Fellows program returns, looking for the next class of future teachers

By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez | February 14

The North Carolina Teaching Fellows program was discontinued but now that it's back, it will distinguish future leaders in the field. However, students ...

Confusion buttons and other tech promotes classroom participation

By Cate Byrne | February 8

How many times have you wished for a confusion button during a particularly difficult lecture? One professor found a way to boost classroom participation ...

UNC senior Rubi Franco Quiroz speaks on Sept. 18 at the DACA in Crisis event, a panel discussion comprised of lawyers, activists and students about how to support the undocumented and DACAmented community.

Stuck in limbo: Future for Dreamers remains uncertain

By Anna Pogarcic | January 16

Amid debates in Congress over the future of DACA, the President’s Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration wrote a letter to the majority and minority ...

Selective universities accepting fewer low-income students, study finds

By Blake Weaver | November 6

A new report by New America has found that colleges are accepting fewer low-income students than they were 20 years ago.

Warren Wilson College to offer free tuition to some in-state students

By Georgia Wieland-Stanford | November 5

Warren Wilson College plans to offer free tuition for in-state students who qualify for any state or federal grants. 

What is the University of the People?

By Olivia Slagle | October 24

The University of the People announced in September there are over 10,000 students enrolled for the first term of the 2018 school year. 

Professor Gregory J. Cizek was named to DeVos' National Assessment Governing Board.

UNC professor named to national education board by DeVos

By Olivia Slagle | October 5

Gregory Cizek, UNC professor of educational measurement and evaluation, was one of six new appointments to the National Assessment Governing Board to ...

Charter school supporters find high absenteeism in public school teachers

By Mitra Norowzi | September 27

A report on chronic teacher absenteeism showing public school teachers are more likely to be chronically absent than charter school teachers was released ...