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A coastal storm has been lurking off the East Coast of the United States for five days, contributing to persistent coastal flooding, rip currents and rough surf from North Carolina to Maine.
The 1983 North Carolina Teacher of the Year, Jean Powell of Clinton, North Carolina was an invited guest speaker to the North Carolina Commission on Education for Economic Growth. Powell told the commission that North Carolina should create a place where teachers could go to become enthusiastic about learning again and could pass this ...
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The state is adding schools to its Teaching Fellows Program to increase geographic diversity across North Carolina. Want to become a teacher? NC may now pay your costs to attend more universities.
The Great Dismal Swamp, which is a series of swamps scattered from Virginia to North Carolina, is North Carolina's largest wetland area. [1] It covers approximately 111,000 acres (450 km 2), [2] which makes it one of the largest swamps in the country. The Tidewater area in North and South Carolina is the only place in the world where the Venus ...
Geographically, in North Carolina and Virginia the Tidewater area is the land between the Suffolk Scarp and the Atlantic Ocean. In Maryland the Tidewater area is the flooded river areas below the Fall Line. The Hampton Roads area of Virginia is considered to be a Tidewater region.
At these points in the lunar cycle, the tide's range is at its minimum; this is called the neap tide, or neaps. "Neap" is an Anglo-Saxon word meaning "without the power", as in forðganges nip (forth-going without-the-power). [9] Neap tides are sometimes referred to as quadrature tides. [8]
North Carolina leaders say the state’s $114 million investment in retraining teachers is paying off through improved literacy scores for the youngest readers.