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As federal funding to schools for covid relief is entering its last phase, a lot of people are beginning to ask the question: What difference has $172 billion made for students and our schools?
Published: Monday, April 17th, 2023 @ 11:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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That's the point Ira Stoll seems to argue in a recent blog post in Education Next.
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2020 @ 8:38 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The COVID-19 pandemic probably won’t kill the SAT, but will no doubt leave it in a badly weakened condition.
Published: Friday, June 26th, 2020 @ 6:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the past few weeks, the stories of how visibly Orthodox Jews have been getting physically assaulted with regularity on the streets of New York have finally broken through
Published: Friday, January 24th, 2020 @ 5:25 am
By: Daily Wire
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Underneath the carefully choreographed unified exterior, signs are emerging that the coalition that helped to elect Democratic politicians for decades may be fracturing.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 @ 8:08 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Underneath the carefully choreographed unified exterior, signs are emerging that the coalition that helped to elect Democratic politicians for decades may be fracturing.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 @ 8:25 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The pervasiveness of summer vacation in music, film, and TV is indicative of the remarkable role it plays in the life of Americans.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2019 @ 2:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The average salary of a public schoolteacher in North Carolina was about $54,000 last year, up 20 percent since 2014. That was one of the largest increases in the nation.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2019 @ 6:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The fast-moving trains advocating for state-funded pre-K programs in North Carolina and elsewhere lost some steam this week with the release of two reports
Published: Tuesday, July 24th, 2018 @ 5:30 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Recently the respected web site Education Next highlighted a new study by Sarah Cordes of Temple University which looked at charter schools and their spillover effects on neighboring non-charter students.
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2018 @ 10:52 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Support for school choice isn't going away, although critics say otherwise
Published: Monday, August 21st, 2017 @ 3:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public charter school parents are more satisfied with their children's education than are traditional public district-school parents
Published: Friday, February 10th, 2017 @ 2:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I am a community college failure. Or perhaps I should say, I helped fail one community college. Decades ago, after receiving my bachelor's degree, I enrolled in a few community college math and statistics classes to prepare for graduate school. Had I not taken those classes, I doubt that I would hav
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:36 am
By: John William Pope Center
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In March, the National Education Association released its latest Rankings and Estimates report. Last school year, North Carolina's average teacher salary ranked 42nd in the nation and trailed No. 41-ranked Louisiana by just over $100. The new edition of the report should be...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In March, the National Education Association (NEA) released their latest Rankings and Estimates report. Last school year, North Carolina's average teacher salary ranked 42nd in the nation and trailed 41st-ranked Louisiana by just over $100. The new edition of the report should be released...
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 5:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The truth is that education school enrollment is dropping nationwide. According to the latest Title II reports published by the U.S. Department of Education, there was a 30 percent drop in education school enrollment between the 2008-09 and 2012-13 school years. Nearly 110,000 fewer students...
Published: Thursday, October 15th, 2015 @ 4:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Before you read the remainder of this column, estimate 1) how much North Carolina spends per student and 2) the average pay for a North Carolina teacher. Keep both figures in mind and proceed.
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 3:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is back-to-school time, which means that the mainstream media and public school advocacy groups are busy telling folks that Republicans are jeopardizing the welfare of North Carolina's public schools. What do the facts say?
Published: Saturday, September 5th, 2015 @ 10:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you want to find an education issue where there seems to be universal agreement in North Carolina, talk about testing. Most everyone agrees we subject our kids to too much of it.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 9:42 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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After years of rejecting progressives’ class warfare argument about “the haves” and the “have-nots,” I’m a bit embarrassed to acknowledge they’ve been right all along.
Published: Tuesday, July 1st, 2014 @ 6:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In his book Education Myths, University of Arkansas professor Jay Greene pointed out that the myth of inadequately funded schools "is simultaneously the most widely held idea about education in America and the one that is most directly at odds with the available evidence."
Published: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 @ 10:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In part I of this two-part series on the shape and direction of education reform in North Carolina, we looked behind the education budget numbers. Now in Part II we discuss this year's legislative steps to address concerns about student achievement, teacher salaries and school vouchers.
Published: Thursday, October 17th, 2013 @ 11:04 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In late March, Gov. Bev Perdue embarked on a two-week campaign to promote a plan that would fund additional education spending by increasing the state sales tax.
Published: Thursday, April 12th, 2012 @ 1:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week the North Carolina General Assembly successfully overrode Gov. Perdue's veto of SB 727- No Dues Checkoff for School Employees.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 @ 7:48 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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