The subject was compelling, the issue timely and the conservation was sometimes provocative at this year's Emerging Issues Forum focusing on teachers and the great economic debate.
Published: Thursday, February 13th, 2014 @ 9:29 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The cost of a college education is rising. That fact has led Robert Samuels, president of the University Council-American Federation of Teachers, to conclude that college should be free. To accomplish that goal, Samuels suggests that the federal government should pick up the tab for all higher...
Published: Tuesday, December 24th, 2013 @ 1:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Every passionate reader has a first literary love - that first book that captured your attention and inspired your desire to explore and understand.
Published: Friday, November 29th, 2013 @ 2:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As I was poking around the internet the other day, I came across definitive proof that those folks who tell us that we must spend additional money on education if we are ever going to see any improvements in the outcomes may well be right. Hmmm...
Published: Monday, November 25th, 2013 @ 5:21 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Have you ever gotten a cringe-worthy progress report or report card from your child's school? Just about every parent will have this experience at least once. If the grade isn't what you expected or wanted, do you blame the school for sending you the report card? Of course not. Like it or not...
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 @ 3:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Political debates about education policy are so contentious that consensus may seem forever out of reach. Yet here's something that virtually everyone agrees is true: academic achievement reflects more than just the value added by teachers, administrators, textbooks, and technology...
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 2:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A memorable example dates back to March 4, 1999, when the governing board of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released the results of national reading exams. They showed that North Carolina was one of only five states that posted significant gains in 4th-grade reading...
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2013 @ 1:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Sen. Jeff Tarte, R-Mecklenburg, believes Special Assessment District revenue bonds may be the fairest method of taxation for economic development infrastructure projects even if the financing instrument attracted only one successful applicant in the five years the bonds have been an option...
Published: Tuesday, August 13th, 2013 @ 4:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Around the nation this spring, simmering parental anger over student testing boiled over into all-out revolt. As testing increasingly co-opts curriculum and classroom, many parents have grown weary of talk, talk, talk. No glib platitudes can quell this uprising; instead, moms and dads are taking...
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2013 @ 9:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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College graduation rates—particularly four-year rates— are low, both nationwide and in the UNC system. So many factors contribute to the low rates (students’ poor preparation, their need to earn money by working, lack of interest, schools’ failure to provide the right...
Published: Monday, April 29th, 2013 @ 6:51 pm
By: Jenna Ashley Robinson
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In a world increasingly dominated by technological shorthand, it's hard to imagine why students would need to know the meaning of an unwieldy word like "perspicacity." Yet in the information age, a good vocabulary is more important than ever.
Published: Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 @ 10:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Between 1996 and 2012, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction authored, field-tested, administered, and analyzed nearly all end-of-grade and end-of-course tests under the ABCs of Public Education accountability program.
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2012 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new tool to help the big boys avoid paying taxes on personal property has been approved by this short session of the legislature. It started with the sudden introduction of House Bill 462 titled "Contingency Audits/Assessments".
Published: Thursday, August 16th, 2012 @ 4:19 am
By: Hood Richardson
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If there are any among us who believe that a reassessment will result in an overall reduction in taxes, much less even a revenue neutral situation, I have a bridge I'll sell them.
Published: Thursday, May 24th, 2012 @ 2:03 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Vidant Beaufort Hospital will once again offer the Safe Sitters babysitting program this summer. Safe Sitters is a medically accurate program that teaches boys and girls ages 11 to 13 how to handle emergencies when caring for children.
Published: Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 @ 7:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The public is invited to attend a free health fair sponsored by Vidant Beaufort Hospital on Tuesday, May 8th from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. outside of the Washington Walmart in recognition of National Hospital Week.
Published: Saturday, May 5th, 2012 @ 1:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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If you follow state politics for any length of time, you hear some version of the following assertion: North Carolina may not rank highly in elementary and secondary education, but we make up for it by having one of the best public university systems in the United States.
Published: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 @ 9:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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