North Carolina tops in number of nationally certified teachers
North Carolina leads the country both in the number of new national board certified teachers and total number of teachers who have received the certification over time, according to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
The state had a total 11,325 certified teachers last year, with 1,525 teachers receiving their certification that year.
Four N.C. school districts ranked among the nation's top 20 in terms of the number of teachers who were certified last year: Wake is second with 186, Charlotte-Mecklenburg is fourth with 142, Guilford is 10th with 72 and Forsyth is 18th with 49.
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OK - the results are finally posted. For the 2005 - 2006 school year, North Carolina had 54 "low performing schools". Remember there are 100 counties in NC. But, alas, wait no longer - Guilford County keeps the crown!!!!! Yet again, we have more schools on the list that any other county.
WINNER Guilford County - 8 schools
Runners up:
Forsyth County - 6
Charlotte Meck - 7 schools (remember their district is twice the size of ours)
WAKE COUNTY - ZERO
DAVIDSON COUNTY - ZERO
"Dr" Grier always like to compare GC to other counties.
This is one camparison he WILL not make!
Posted on January 9, 2007 6:14 PM
Obviously having National Board Certification does not equate with the best teachers or the best results. The reason we have that number is NC decided to pay teachers about $7500 more per year if they earn this certification.
Posted on January 9, 2007 6:57 PM
North Carolina should be pushing Master's degrees not this National Board crap.
Posted on January 10, 2007 2:52 PM
We don't necessarily have bad teachers as indicated with the motivation of many of them to excel at what they do by receiving certification.
Most of the problems associated with kid's issues in school, not learning, bad behavior, primarily is the result of bad parenting.
Most of our kids are growing up in a home culture that accepts bad behavior and quite frankly I'm surprised anyone would want to teach or more accurately put up with these spoiled and misbehaving brats on a daily basis. My hat is off to the teachers who get little pay yet work in the environment that they do.
Many like to blame Grier and others but it all starts in the home and that's where the problem resides.
Posted on January 10, 2007 4:17 PM