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Gov. McCrory is right on target in calling for this review. But it is not a matter of a certain number of tests that are given but rather what the nature of and use of the tests are.
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School board chair Cindy Winstead raised an interesting issue at the May meeting while discussing Senate Bill 236.
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2013 @ 2:42 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Those interested in public education in North Carolina who missed the May 16, 2013 Beaufort TEA Party meeting you missed an excellent chance to learn about "Common Core," perhaps the hottest topic in education circles today.
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Bill Cook has introduced SB 664 which is entitled "Consolidate DV Commission/Council for Women."
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The Elite Media in this country in on a crusade to bastardize our traditional culture. We have no doubt about it.
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Some 113 delegates and 87 alternates will assemble Tuesday night (3-26-13) in the Beaufort County Republican Convention.
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There are some really funny things I have observed about the "gun control debate."
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I am encouraged by the discussions the Beaufort County Board of Education is having about how it can function more effectively, and hopefully more efficiently.
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This is the first in a series that analyzes the Jail Study done by Todd B. Davis, Sr. with Moseley Architects.
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One would think we Americans would learn. Government does not do very much very well.
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This is a story about a big fish tale. The fish itself was big and the consequences of the dispute was big. About a million dollars worth.
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Much of the advance in human knowledge comes from our university systems. We live better lives because of some of it.
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As I listened to Henry Hinton's Talk of the Town local radio program on Tuesday (12-18-12), I was simply amazed and troubled at the ignorance depicted by the hosts and several of the callers.
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A million years ago I did my doctoral dissertation on court cases that dealt with school spending's impact on student achievement.
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When I was a principal at a large high school in Wake County back in the 80's the first year we used computers to schedule students' classes we used the old punch card system.
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Some citizens of the United States have become sheep because their education has been sorely lacking in inspired teaching by teachers who know and are inspired themselves about important subjects.
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We hear much ado these days about the issue of federalism. That is, what powers does the national government have and what powers does that level of government not have.
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Regrettably, it is not likely that the Beaufort County Board of Education election will get much attention this year amidst all the hoopla of a presidential/gubernatorial election.
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First, Governor Perdue, Superintendent Atkinson and other education leaders should really stop and realize how utterly foolish they sound to say that the nearly $10 billion dollars that were dumped into the K-12 system in 2009 and 2010 from Obama's "stimulus" program should be maintained.
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A unanimous Court of Appeals Tuesday handed the Republican controlled Legislature a stunning defeat on the issue of pre-Kindergarten education.
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Essentially what the article reported was the approval which was sought and obtained by a representative of the Beaufort County Health Department to accept a grant to provide nutrition education to elementary school children at selected schools in Beaufort County.
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John Denver fans will remember one of his hit songs that said: "some days are diamonds, some days are stones. Sometimes the hard times just won't leave us along." That tune comes to mind when one looks John at the recently released test scores for Beaufort County Schools.
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In January 2012, the members of the Cabarrus County Board of Education gave preliminary approval to a virtual charter school operated by a non-profit organization, N.C. Learns.
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Anne Blythe, writing for the News & Observer has an interesting story on the ongoing dispute between one school system in the state, Cabarrus County, and the rest of the school systems, the State Board of Education and essentially The Education Establishment in the state.
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I am convinced that when the history is written of North Carolina public education in the early part of the 21st century the most notable story will be that of "choice."
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Republicans in the General Assembly think they can fix what's wrong with our public schools. Here we go again.
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By now almost everyone here has heard about Social Studies Teacher Tonya Dixon-Neely from North Rowan High School.
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Tenure, or whatever you want to call it, is necessary and essential until we reform the way school boards operate in this state.
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One of the topics in Legal Reasoning was "Fallacies." I introduced it by defining a fallacy as a conclusion that while often supported by competent evidence/facts was nonetheless either untrue or contrary to the evidence/facts.
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I hesitated to report this but after a second thought decided to do so simply because it is one of the most debated issues in education. Homework, that is.
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Beaufort County Schools has recently announced the creation of a new "hotline" to report bullying.
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A long awaited major study of the effects of school choice has now been published. You can read about it by clicking here. The study was essentially a review of the literature on hundreds of research projects looking at various issues related to school choice.
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But as much as we are biased in their favor, I'm not convinced that it is sound public policy for the government to provide pre-school education for all children.
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Readers will recall that when the Republican-controlled Legislature was working on the budget for this year there went up a huge hue and cry from the education community, the union reps and Governor Perdue that the public schools were being devastated by the cuts the Legislature was making.
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