Ranked by school superintendents as the best publicly supported education school in the nation, Carolina's School of Education has been educating teachers since 1876 when UNC-Chapel Hill held the first university summer school for teachers in America. Today, 56 full-time faculty offer a full range of baccalaureate, master's and doctoral programs to 800 undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate students.

Students learn through dynamic classroom instruction combined with extensive, practical experiences with children in diverse schools. Research conducted within the school explores new frontiers, such as evaluating whether educational reforms really work and using exciting new microcomputer technology to engage middle and high school students in science. The school's faculty serve hundreds of teachers, students, and schools across the state each year through seminars, workshops, and an online network providing information and personal support.

More than 18,000 alumni throughout America and the world include such notables as the 2006 National Disney Teacher of the Year and the 2005 Superintendent of the Year for the State of North Carolina.