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Well, never mind, then. According to the only large-scale, randomized controlled trial of a statewide preschool initiative - Tennessee's pre-K program -intervening early to boost long-term academic performance doesn't work
Published: Sunday, August 12th, 2018 @ 6:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Monday, August 7th, 2017 @ 1:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Spokesmen for North Carolina Republican U.S. Sens. Thom Tillis and Richard Burr condemned Senate Democrats' attacks on the John Locke Foundation, Carolina Journal, and 47 other organizations that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., accused of concocting a "Web of Denial" through research and reporting
Published: Sunday, September 4th, 2016 @ 12:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As I have previously reported, last May US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I) proposed subjecting people who make politically incorrect statements about climate change to criminal investigation, and in September a group of respected academics went on the record endorsing that outrageous idea...
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 10:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While environmental activists believe New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's investigations of oil giant Exxon Mobil and coal producer Peabody Energy could develop into a multistate class-action matter on the scale of the lawsuit against cigarette makers, North Carolina has not joined...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Chances are East Carolina University doctoral students are either in the field, in the lab, headed to one or just back from the other.
Published: Friday, September 18th, 2015 @ 5:02 am
By: ECU News Services
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For the last decade I have taught entrepreneurship to literally tens of thousands of students in big classes, small seminars, and on the Internet in a massively open online course (MOOC). The sheer diversity of these students - their abilities, their backgrounds, their personal traits, and their...
Published: Thursday, August 20th, 2015 @ 3:40 am
By: John William Pope Center
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U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, last week accused committee Democrats of an "attempt to silence" the John Locke Foundation - and 106 other organizations that have expressed skepticism over apocalyptic claims of the role of human...
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 12:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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General education is not given the respect and attention it deserves in the great majority of US colleges and universities, North Carolina State University included. Largely because of campus politics, political correctness, and pandering to students, at most colleges it has become an academic...
Published: Friday, October 17th, 2014 @ 12:34 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The political left never rests in its drive to transform the U.S. into a more statist, more collective society. Its adherents are always scanning the status quo for openings and vulnerabilities to exploit, and they tirelessly produce a wide array of initiatives to advance their cause. It is hard...
Published: Saturday, January 25th, 2014 @ 10:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The Pope Center recently published a report on UNC-Chapel Hill's general education program - the "core curriculum" of non-major requirements that all students must complete in order to graduate. In our report, we analyzed the current system and then presented two alternative programs for general...
Published: Wednesday, December 4th, 2013 @ 9:29 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In 1651, Englishman Thomas Hobbes described the lives of men as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2013 @ 5:23 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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We do not have to lay awake at night and listen for noises that are so faint we wonder whether we heard something or we imagined we heard something.
Published: Monday, August 13th, 2012 @ 12:20 am
By: Hood Richardson
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In this season of political claims, counterclaims, and calling of names, separating truth from error or falsehood can be a challenge. When in doubt, apply the Bacon Test.
Published: Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 @ 6:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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