By John Hood North Carolina and other states expanding their school-choice programs over the past few years are betting on the power of competition to promote educational opportunity and boost student ...

Bluegrass/folk musician Kristen Grainger and her musical/life partner Dan Wetzel did exactly that—just in time to be shut down by the COVID pandemic. Get our free email newsletters — latest headlines ...

North Carolina and other states expanding their school-choice programs over the past few years are betting on the power of competition to promote educational opportunity and ...

Scandinavian Arctic culture receives some of the most memorable poetic and musical cinematic treatment to be found in this year’s Sundance slate, with the premiere of FOLKTALES, directed by Heidi ...

The South Carolina Department of Education faces a civil rights lawsuit challenging its restrictions on how race and sex are taught in the state’s K-12 schools. South Carolina Budget Proviso 1. ...

Given that the folk high schools themselves teach Norse mythology, Ewing and Grady incorporate it into their visuals, particularly the tale of the three “Norns,” or fates who weave a future at ...

Mandatory Credit: Brad Mills-Imagn Images / Brad Mills-Imagn Images One of the top high school football players to ever have come out of Leesville Road (North Carolina) got the ultimate honor.

Click here for a better experience on our website. The damage in Western North Carolina is there for all to see — from collapsed homes and shuttered businesses to crumbling roads, with debris ...

Stop by North House Folk School during the warmer months, and you might come across a group of students raising a timber frame structure on… ...

Residents of Asheville and the rest of western North Carolina are still recovering from catastrophic flooding in September. By Eduardo Medina Reporting from Durham, N.C. Four months after ...