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The factors that go into grading public schools in North Carolina would change under a set of recommendations proposed by an advisory panel in the Department of Public Instruction.
Published: Tuesday, July 18th, 2023 @ 11:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A wearied North Carolina faces a third year of the pandemic with resignation and hope.
Published: Thursday, December 30th, 2021 @ 11:32 am
By: Tom Campbell
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No matter your age I’m betting you remember those annual late-summer trips to Roses “dime” store (or a similar one) to purchase back to school supplies. Must-haves included a new three-ring binder, a big pack of Blue Horse or Write Right loose-leaf notebook paper, course dividers, No. 2 lead Ticonde
Published: Monday, October 25th, 2021 @ 4:23 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Epidemiologists and infectious disease experts have consistently maintained that the risk of spread of the COVID-19 virus among young children is low.
Published: Monday, April 19th, 2021 @ 7:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed.
Published: Friday, August 7th, 2020 @ 2:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With K-12 schools across the state closed until May 15, lawmakers and education officials are working to ensure students are still able to get an education and that school employees are paid.
Published: Monday, March 30th, 2020 @ 3:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Students attending the ECU Community School achieved growth during the 2018-19 school year, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s annual report card.
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 @ 5:14 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Stories about the value of school choice and the healthy competition it nurtures are ubiquitous yet salient
Published: Sunday, February 5th, 2017 @ 3:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's back-to-school time and parents everywhere want not only to encourage their children academically, but also want to know how their child's school is performing.
Published: Thursday, October 13th, 2016 @ 11:45 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The new school year is fast approaching, but policymakers remain rattled by testing boycotts that swept the nation this spring. From New York to California, hundreds of thousands of parents pulled their children out of end-of-year tests.
Published: Sunday, August 16th, 2015 @ 12:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Homeschooling reached a milestone in North Carolina in the 2014-15 school year. The number of students enrolled in homeschools in the state topped 100,000
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 9:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Those who care about education reform learned a lot on February 5 when North Carolina released its first letter grades for public schools. The grades reflect three sets of information: average student performance on end-of-year tests, the amount of annual growth in those scores, and graduation...
Published: Tuesday, February 10th, 2015 @ 10:07 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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The first week of February brought Wayne County mother Jennifer Strickland an eye-popping surprise. A letter from the principal indicated that one of her twin boys — a stellar, straight-A student reading at an almost sixth-grade level — was in danger of being retained in third grade...
Published: Thursday, March 20th, 2014 @ 2:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I'm talking about the political struggle over North Carolina's 3rd-grade reading standard, not the violent struggle between Paul Newman and the prison warden in "Cool Hand Luke." Nevertheless, the consequences could be severe if North Carolina's dispute isn't resolved. Any resolution, in turn...
Published: Sunday, March 16th, 2014 @ 11:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Money to provide opportunity scholarships -- or school vouchers -- to children from lower income families has made it into the House budget...
Published: Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 @ 11:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While Republican Senate leader Phil Berger introduced a comprehensive education reform package at the opening of this year's short legislative session, his GOP House colleagues are offering more limited, targeted changes in school policy.
Published: Friday, June 1st, 2012 @ 6:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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High school graduation rates improved in 2011, increasing to 77.7 percent, the highest four-year graduation rate ever reported in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, August 4th, 2011 @ 6:09 pm
By: Anna Deatherage
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