North Carolina’s failure to pass a budget could affect a state-mandated financial literacy course requirement for all public high schools.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2019 @ 12:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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About a year ago, Princeton philosopher Robert P. George came to Chapel Hill to speak about civil discourse and diversity of thought with the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors.
Published: Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 @ 6:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Beaufort County Community College cut the ribbon on a disc golf course that stretches across its campus on March 20
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2019 @ 8:00 am
By: Daniel Bunting
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Beaufort County Community College will cut the ribbon on a disc golf course that stretches across its campus on March 20 at 1:30 p.m.
Published: Saturday, March 16th, 2019 @ 1:05 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The bridges were designed by Sammy Deans, director of plant & maintenance operations at BCCC.
Published: Sunday, February 17th, 2019 @ 9:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Throughout my career in journalism, I've tried to make it a point to learn something from all each of my editors, even those I often questioned, or even disliked
Published: Sunday, January 6th, 2019 @ 1:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It seems reasonable to expect that public school students who achieve the highest-level scores on standardized math tests ought to get the first shot at placement in advanced math classes the following year
Published: Sunday, June 24th, 2018 @ 9:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A bill requiring low-income students who score high on end-of-year math tests to automatically be placed in advanced math classes passed unanimously in the House
Published: Wednesday, June 20th, 2018 @ 10:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Around 1 in 4 Recent High School Graduates Enrolled in Remedial Courses
Published: Sunday, December 31st, 2017 @ 1:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The headlines - all from far-left publications - of course made their way into the mainstream media. Why else would a 19-year-old young man have died just hours after his father had been forced out of Fox News following allegations that he texted photos of his privates to several women?
Published: Friday, September 15th, 2017 @ 10:20 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A vile strain of racial tension has infected our national discourse
Published: Sunday, September 10th, 2017 @ 12:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One-Third Of Recent High School Graduates Need Remediation
Published: Friday, November 4th, 2016 @ 8:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's a basic concept: Limit comparisons to items that can be compared reasonably. But too much of today's political discourse relies instead on apples-to-oranges comparisons, those comparisons that are unreasonable or perhaps impossible.
Published: Friday, September 2nd, 2016 @ 6:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In arguing the case brought by North Carolina, Texas and a coalition of states challenging President Obama's illegal immigration executive order, U.S. Department of Justice (U.S. DOJ) attorneys engaged in "intentional," "serious," and "unethical" misconduct, a federal judge ruled last week. In a...
Published: Wednesday, May 25th, 2016 @ 3:14 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Last year, 42 percent of recent high school graduates enrolled in one or more remedial or "developmental" math and/or English courses at a North Carolina community college.
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2015 @ 12:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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E. M. Forster's frightening short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) depicts a post-apocalyptic world in which all human activity has been subsumed by a global digital network similar to the Internet (except that Forster's version is controlled by a worldwide government bureaucracy)...
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 2:40 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The East Carolina University College of Nursing's first Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC, attracted a global audience of more than 700 to learn about the science behind caring.
Published: Tuesday, July 21st, 2015 @ 1:06 am
By: ECU News Services
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One of the things that most frightens non-tenured faculty members is the prospect of getting too low an average on end-of-term student course evaluations.
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2015 @ 3:01 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Economist and syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell - a North Carolina native, by the way - is fond of denying that there are permanent solutions to problems. Instead, he insists, "there are only tradeoffs."
Published: Friday, April 3rd, 2015 @ 4:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, I presented Senate Bill 112 (Commercial Fishing Courses/Coastal Colleges) to the Senate Committee on Workforce and Economic Development.
Published: Tuesday, March 31st, 2015 @ 2:11 am
By: Bill Cook
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The modern university has had a great 200-year run
Published: Monday, February 9th, 2015 @ 4:10 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Over half of students who graduated in 2013 and subsequently enrolled in a North Carolina community college took one or more remedial or "developmental" courses in math and/or English.
Published: Monday, January 19th, 2015 @ 7:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University is joining an American Council on Education alternative credit consortium as part of an initiative to create a more flexible pathway toward a college degree for millions of nontraditional learners.
Published: Sunday, January 4th, 2015 @ 11:59 am
By: ECU News Services
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In July, I wrote about the pressure that University of Wisconsin officials have been exerting on the faculty for greater "equity" on campus.
Published: Friday, December 19th, 2014 @ 1:40 am
By: John William Pope Center
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New courses to help potential and existing business owners will be available online and free of charge through Beaufort County Community College beginning Jan. 1, 2015.
Published: Wednesday, December 17th, 2014 @ 3:08 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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BCCC has welcomed middle grades students from across Beaufort County during the past two weeks. Under the direction of Vice President of Student Services Rick Anderson and his team, the county's eighth grade students toured BCCC's nursing, cosmetology, agribusiness technology programs automotive...
Published: Monday, November 17th, 2014 @ 9:54 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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With most academic fields, we know what they are about. Political science teaches about political systems and their workings; philosophy about how people have thought on questions such as ethics; literature courses have students read and contemplate worthwhile books.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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One of the first books about the state of higher education that I read after coming to the Pope Center was Generation X Goes to College by Peter Sacks
Published: Friday, November 7th, 2014 @ 6:11 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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