Synopsis
A weekly look at North Carolina education issues and policy.
Episodes
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The importance of reverse transfer
20/02/2020 Duration: 17minHost Alex Granados talks with James Mikolowsky, a policy analyst at The Hunt Institute about the importance of reverse transfer, a program by which students can go back and get degrees they may have already earned.
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Michelle Ellis, teacher at Hunter Huss High School
23/01/2020 Duration: 22minIn this episode of EdTalk, host Alex Granados talks with Michelle Ellis, a teacher at Hunter Huss High School in Gastonia.
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Michelle Ellis, teacher at Hunter Huss High School
23/01/2020 Duration: 22minIn this episode of EdTalk, host Alex Granados talks with Michelle Ellis, a teacher at Hunter Huss High School in Gastonia. Photo caption: Deborah Inman and Michelle Ellis, right, of Hunter Huss High School. Yasmin Bendaas/EducationNC
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DRIVE Summit interview with Governor Roy Cooper
07/12/2019 Duration: 20minDRIVE Summit interview with Governor Roy Cooper by EdNC
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Equity and access to educational opportunity
25/07/2019 Duration: 14minHost Alex Granados talks with James Ford, consultant with Filling the Gap Educational Consultants and executive director for the Center for Racial Equity and Education (CREED). CREED is releasing two reports examining equity in North Carolina, and content related to them is being released on EducationNC throughout August. In this episode, Ford talks more about his project, including how equity impacts academically gifted students, students with disability, and more.
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Equitable distribution of effective teachers
11/06/2019 Duration: 18minOn this episode of EdTalk, host Alex Granados talks with Johanna Anderson, executive director of the Belk Foundation, about the Foundation's new funding priority aiming to make sure the state has an equitable distribution of effective teachers in districts around North Carolina.
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Enrollment trends at Community Colleges
27/02/2019 Duration: 15minEnrollment trends at Community Colleges by EdNC
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Interview with Peter Hans, president of the North Carolina Community College System
12/01/2019 Duration: 24minIn this episode of EdTalk, host Alex Granados sits down with Peter Hans, president of the North Carolina Community College System
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Lt. Gov. Dan Forest on technology in classrooms
12/12/2018 Duration: 17minOn this episode of EdTalk, host Alex Granados talks with Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest about how technology in classrooms is changing the way public schools work in the 21st Century.
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Governor Bev Perdue on technology in education
12/12/2018 Duration: 19minOn this episode of EdTalk, host Alex Granados talks with former NC Governor Bev Perdue about the role of technology in state classrooms.
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Read to Achieve Podcast
19/11/2018 Duration: 14minIn this episode of EdTalk, host Alex Granados talks with Trip Stallings and Steve Porter about the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation report on Read to Achieve. Stallings is director of policy research at the Friday Institute, and Porter is a professor of Higher Education at the NC State College of Education.
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Interview with political professor on six constitutional amendments
24/10/2018 Duration: 23minHost Alex Granados talks with John Dinan, a professor of politics at Wake Forest University, about the six constitutional amendments that will be on the ballot in November.
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What is Wolfpack WORKS?
26/07/2018 Duration: 14minIn this episode of EdTalk, host Alex Granados talks with Paola Sztajn, associate dean for Research and Innovation at NC State University's College of Education and co-principal investigator for Wolfpack WORKS, about the Wolfpack WORKS program.
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Interview with Shirley Prince, executive director of NCPAPA
25/05/2018 Duration: 15minIn this episode of EdTalk, host Alex Granados talks with Shirley Prince, the executive director of the North Carolina Principals and Assistant Principals' Association.
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Interview with South Carolina education writer Paul Hyde
18/05/2018 Duration: 20minHost Alex Granados talks with Paul Hyde, an education writer for The Greenville News in South Carolina.
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Interview with Rep. Craig Horn
11/05/2018 Duration: 17minOn this episode of EdTalk, host Alex Granados talks with Rep. Craig Horn, R-Union, about the upcoming short session budget
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Mike Zimmerman, 4th grade teacher, Joyner Elementary in Wake County
04/05/2018 Duration: 13minMike Zimmerman, 4th grade teacher, Joyner Elementary in Wake County by EdNC
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Interview with the director of Carolina Demography at UNC-Chapel Hill's Carolina Population Center
15/04/2018 Duration: 20minIn this episode of EdTalk, host Alex Granados talks with Rebecca Tippett, Director of Carolina Demography at UNC-Chapel Hill's Carolina Population Center.
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Interview on Students@Work Week
02/04/2018 Duration: 11minIn this episode of EdTalk, host Alex Granados talks about Students@Work Week with Ashlie Bucy, deputy director of the North Carolina Business Committee for Education.