T. Keung Hui
Reporter at The News & Observer
I'm a K-12 education reporter for @newsobserver. I also tweet about history, baseball & science fiction. Retweets aren’t endorsements -- unless about @Yankees.
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23 hours ago |
newsobserver.com | T. Keung Hui
The days of the Wake County school system providing computers that every student can take home may be coming to an end. Wake County began providing Chromebooks for all 160,000 students to use while learning at home during the pandemic. But repeatedly on Tuesday, school administrators and school board members said they can't continue that practice post-pandemic. "The cost of technology is high," Superintendent Robert Taylor told the school board's facilities committee.
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1 day ago |
charlotteobserver.com | T. Keung Hui
Carter Wall, right, participates in Kimberly Shaw's sixth-grade reading class at Reddy Creek Magnet Center for Digital Sciences in Cary on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. [email protected] Five years ago, the bottom fell out for millions of students like Carter Wall, when everything they knew about school changed. Carter, who has a learning disability, made the switch to online classes, and later in-person classes while wearing a face mask at Penny Road Elementary School in Cary.
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1 day ago |
charlotteobserver.com | T. Keung Hui
Ariel Spencer, left, tutors a group of students at Joseph W. Grier Academy in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday, March 9, 2023. [email protected] North Carolina schools will now have to continue post-pandemic recovery efforts without the benefit of billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 aid. Despite the loss of the one-time federal pandemic aid, education officials and researchers say there are still ways schools can continue the post-pandemic learning recovery.
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2 days ago |
newsobserver.com | T. Keung Hui
Franklinton High School Principal Russell Holloman has been suspended with pay and faces losing his job in the Franklin County school system. Franklin County Schools The longtime principal of Franklinton High School has been suspended and could be fired after a district investigation into an incident involving the baseball team.
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6 days ago |
thestar.com.my | T. Keung Hui
In a message posted May 8 on Wake’s website, the district says some students across the country have been participating in a challenge that involves intentionally damaging school-issued Chromebooks to make them smoke. Wake says some incidents have already been reported in district schools. “Specifically, students are inserting items such as pencil lead, pushpins, gum wrappers, or paperclips into the Chromebook’s USB port to intentionally short-circuit the device,” Wake said.
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