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Gone are the days when you could just ship your kids off to the public school system every day and trust them to come out still sane and reasonably educated. But what are the alternatives?
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2024 @ 1:01 am
By: Babylon Bee
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American universities have become factories that produce “ignorant activists” instead of educated citizens after decades of radical leftists getting into faculty positions on campuses across the country, Michael Knowles said at Cornell University Monday night.
Published: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023 @ 12:33 am
By: Daily Wire
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WalletHub released its yearly “Most & Least Educated Cities in America” report this week, and it ranked Durham and Chapel Hill together in the sixth most educated city, while Raleigh-Cary appeared in the eighth position.
Published: Tuesday, October 17th, 2023 @ 9:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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"The founders understood that the Lockean natural rights of life, liberty, and property could only be preserved by educated people. Still, they also knew the corrupting threat to the republic posed by sprawling bureaucracies," said Foxx.
Published: Wednesday, September 20th, 2023 @ 12:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
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An overwhelming majority of Americans support school choice, which would allow parents to decide where their children are educated.
Published: Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 @ 3:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Much is written about polarization in American life today. Examples of things that separate us – like the urban/rural divide and the college educated/ high school education divide.
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 9:39 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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Homeschool students excel beyond their peers in private, charter, and public schools on the Classic Learning Test, according to a rigorous standardized college entrance exam oriented toward classically educated students.
Published: Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 @ 7:50 am
By: Daily Wire
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For the last week, I’ve been writing about the responses parents provided to questions they were asked about their child’s school and how they were being educated.
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 @ 11:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A recent Civitas Poll of North Carolina parents found that most parents believe they are best able to determine how and where their child is educated.
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2022 @ 8:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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THE PRESIDENT: Hey, folks. Well, good afternoon. When America made 12 years of public education universal in the last century, we became — not figuratively, literally — the best-educated public in the world and better prepared than any other nation.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 9:18 pm
By: ENC NOW
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Should not our teachers be educated?
Published: Monday, May 24th, 2021 @ 5:30 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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If coronavirus were not enough, parents are starting to get increasingly uneasy about how their children will be educated this fall.
Published: Thursday, June 25th, 2020 @ 3:09 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Do you believe parents should determine how and where your children are educated and enjoy more educational options?
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2020 @ 8:32 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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NBA megastar LeBron James cowered to the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Monday while talking to reporters about the backlash that Houston Rockets’ General Manager Daryl Morey received for advocating for Hong Kong’s freedom.
Published: Wednesday, October 16th, 2019 @ 10:34 am
By: Daily Wire
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More foreign-born doctors educated in the U.S. are seeking visa waivers to practice medicine in North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, February 6th, 2019 @ 7:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Most Americans have been propagandized rather than educated on the causes of the War Between the States (aka, The War of Northern Aggression; aka, The War to Prevent Southern Independence; aka, the Civil War).
Published: Monday, May 21st, 2018 @ 3:01 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Parental choice in education is popular. About a fifth of North Carolina students are educated outside of district-run public schools, and this share will probably grow to a quarter or more in the coming years
Published: Saturday, October 21st, 2017 @ 5:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the 2016-17 academic year, nearly one out of five North Carolina children were educated in settings other than district-run public schools
Published: Wednesday, August 9th, 2017 @ 5:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper today highlighted his proposed NC GROW (Getting Ready for Opportunities in the Workforce) Scholarship to help make North Carolina a Top 10 Educated state by 2025. Starting next year, good students who graduated high school with a 2.0 GPA or higher would get free tuition to any NC
Published: Friday, March 24th, 2017 @ 3:36 am
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper today released his recommended budget for 2017-2019, Common Ground Solutions for NC, to invest in a better educated, healthier and more prosperous North Carolina without raising taxes or fees
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2017 @ 10:56 am
By: Governor's Office
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In his budget to the legislature, set to be presented tomorrow, Governor Roy Cooper will announce an ambitious and forward-thinking education plan to make North Carolina a "Top 10 Educated State" by 2025
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2017 @ 5:53 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The larger question may remain: Who is willing to learn, and intellectually expand their horizons to become better providers, better citizens and truer patriots?
Published: Saturday, February 27th, 2016 @ 6:27 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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How do North Carolinians feel about their schools and how their children are educated? The November Civitas Poll provided plenty of good information about those topics.
Published: Tuesday, January 19th, 2016 @ 4:38 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory's Connect NC bond initiative will pump $734 million into our state's distinguished universities and community colleges for facility upgrades and improvements. Of that, $534 million will be directed to the University of North Carolina System and $200 million will be allocated...
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2015 @ 9:59 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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America needs a better-educated work force - but President Obama's plan for "free" community college is not the way to get it.
Published: Wednesday, March 25th, 2015 @ 3:57 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Filmmaker Steve Channing's excellent "A Generation of Change" on UNC-TV, was a stark reminder of post-war North Carolina, a state wracked by poverty, poor health and uneducated citizens.
Published: Saturday, January 17th, 2015 @ 6:12 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In the 80s and 90s, Democrats worked really hard to make voting easier for their lazy, shiftless, poorly-educated target market.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 8:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Labor unions and "moral" activists have once again somehow convinced a few of the poorest and least educated workers in the Triangle to walk off their jobs and demand publicly that they all be priced out of work and their jobs be taken by machines.
Published: Friday, September 12th, 2014 @ 12:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On May 6, 2014, voters will go to the polls to select the Republican nominee for the general election in November. As in all political races, it is important the voter makes an informed decision. To that end, I would like to present some information to help clarify a few key issues.
Published: Thursday, April 17th, 2014 @ 12:32 am
By: Harry Meredith, Jr.
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One of the cheapest shots in politics is to claim that only the unschooled and ignorant could possibly side with the other team. Both Democrats and Republicans make the claim about the other party. Democrats ridicule Republican-leaning voters for being dumb rednecks and undereducated boobs...
Published: Friday, March 21st, 2014 @ 4:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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That America needs a better-educated workforce has become today's honored wisdom, so what better measurement of progress than rising college graduation rates?
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2013 @ 10:31 pm
By: Robert Weissberg
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North Carolina features over 50 occupational licensing boards. The state licenses more occupations than most other states and is one of the more aggressive in licensing jobs for the poor or less educated.
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2013 @ 3:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Appoint Jim Gardner (Rocky Mount) – Gardner was born in Rocky Mount on April 8, 1933 and educated in North Carolina public schools in Rocky Mount and North Carolina State University.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 @ 8:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I'm highly educated, very qualified. I don't need training. I need a job.
Published: Thursday, December 27th, 2012 @ 11:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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UNC Healthcare CEO Dr. Bill Roper educated state legislators Dec. 11 about what he called five "myths" of health care at a Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services meeting held to discuss the future of health care.
Published: Tuesday, December 18th, 2012 @ 4:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sam J .Ervin, Jr., born in Morganton, Burke County, on September 27, 1896, was educated in public school.
Published: Thursday, November 29th, 2012 @ 9:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even in the midst of a near-monopoly education system, most parents are active participants in determining, or at least attempting to influence, where and how their children are educated.
Published: Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 @ 1:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the last few months, along with many others, I've become educated on the threat of the United Nations program called Agenda 21 (Agenda for the 21st Century) and the impact it has already had on the lives of freedom-loving citizens all over the world, including us in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 @ 11:50 pm
By: Mattie Lawson
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