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Once upon a time, not many years ago, North Carolina had a dream. A dream shared by parents and politicians, by citizens and educators.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2025 @ 4:20 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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When will common sense guide School Board decision making?
Published: Thursday, February 27th, 2025 @ 5:04 pm
By: Dave Hudson
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For more than a decade we’ve studied the problem exhaustively, we’ve talked about it almost incessantly, we’ve engaged the latest curriculum du jour, and have spent more than $50 million dollars, yet we still can’t solve the mystery of our children’s reading proficiency.
Published: Sunday, March 26th, 2023 @ 9:02 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Legislative leaders are baffled. We all should be. After pouring more than $200 million additional dollars into helping our children read at grade level, they (and we) want to know when we are going to see results.
Published: Thursday, December 8th, 2022 @ 1:22 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Omicron is spreading faster than Kudzu, especially among our children.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 3:02 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Over the past few days it has felt like we were ending 2021 where we started it, in the throes of a spiking pandemic.
Published: Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021 @ 5:43 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The U.S. Department of Education has issued a testing compliance ultimatum to several states, including North Carolina, and the ultimatum includes the threat of legal action. This activity is tied to controversial re-authorization of No Child Left Behind, known as Every School Succeeds Act (ESSA).
Published: Tuesday, April 26th, 2016 @ 6:47 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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She arrived as an unpaid intern at the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, and now East Carolina University junior nursing student Aleigha Criego is having a hard time leaving.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:23 am
By: ECU News Services
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that North Carolina is among nine states to win approval of its Excellent Educators for All plan by the U.S. Department of Education.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 9:40 am
By: McCrory Communications
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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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A State Board of Education task force may scrap longstanding end-of-grade tests for a system of interim assessments designed to provide more reliable and immediate data to identify students who need help in core subject areas.
Published: Thursday, April 16th, 2015 @ 4:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The headlines sounded great. 56 percent of our students passed their end of grade tests, compared to just 44 percent last year.
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 8:58 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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North Carolina’s public schools have just released end-of-grade and end-of-course test scores for the 2013-14 school year.
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 4:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Vladimir Lenin said, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." Professional educrats (education bureaucrats) and their buddies in the mainstream media have taken this quote to heart.
Published: Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 @ 6:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Sizzling oratory and stubborn statistics clashed as opponents of a tax-funded voucher bill for private schools squared off against advocates of the...
Published: Saturday, May 25th, 2013 @ 11:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Documents obtained by the Civitas Institute reveal reports filed by those receiving state and federal grants are limited in length to little more than three tweets - raising questions about how well that spending is being tracked and evaluated.
Published: Thursday, July 26th, 2012 @ 3:40 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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These latest announcements from the Chocowinity Primary School, via the Beaufort County School System, reminds us that schools are a focal point of activity.
Published: Friday, July 6th, 2012 @ 9:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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These latest announcements from the Bath area on the north side of the Pamlico River, via the Beaufort County School System, reminds us that schools are a focal point of activity.
Published: Saturday, June 23rd, 2012 @ 12:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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