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Upgrade of meters to collect more data on we the people?
Published: Saturday, August 22nd, 2026 @ 11:07 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Also downgraded Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Published: Friday, August 25th, 2023 @ 9:22 pm
By: John Steed
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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) told Tucker Carlson on Friday that he believes that a critical national security interest for the United States is degrading the Russian military.
Published: Tuesday, August 1st, 2023 @ 6:42 pm
By: Daily Wire
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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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Having to give the opposing party’s response after the State of the Union always seems like drawing the short stick as a politician. At least that’s the way it seemed for whoever had to respond to President Donald Trump and even President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speeches.
Published: Sunday, February 12th, 2023 @ 10:34 pm
By: Daily Wire
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No grade inflation or lowering of standards thanks to equity around here. Biden gets a D+.
Published: Friday, February 10th, 2023 @ 4:05 am
By: Daily Wire
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While holding a feast for his court, King Solomon reportedly became so embarrassed by loud chewing from his 48th wife, Tiffany, that he left in shame and assembled his loyal advisors to weigh the feasibility of demoting her to the role of concubine.
Published: Sunday, January 8th, 2023 @ 4:10 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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According to Catherine Truitt, N.C. superintendent of Public Instruction, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to underscore the limited nature of North Carolina’s accountability on public schools.
Published: Thursday, January 5th, 2023 @ 6:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Alleged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell apparently kept a 58-page list of rules dictating how staff at the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s estates were supposed to act, including the demand that they “see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing.”
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 @ 7:44 am
By: Daily Wire
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while downgrading conservative sites
Published: Saturday, May 28th, 2022 @ 7:58 pm
By: John Steed
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Sunrise Park Middle School in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, is the latest school to change its grading system in the name of combating “systemic racism.”
Published: Monday, November 15th, 2021 @ 12:51 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Carolina Panthers traded for what may be their quarterback of the future in Sam Darnold, but just how good of a deal was it for new general manager Scott Fitterer?
Published: Thursday, April 8th, 2021 @ 1:26 am
By: Daniel Bunting
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It’s been an unspectacular free agency period for the Carolina Panthers in terms of big splashes, which was to be expected in the current financial climate and not uncommon across the league.
Published: Wednesday, April 7th, 2021 @ 9:48 am
By: Daniel Bunting
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The Carolina Panthers have made some good and some questionable moves this offseason, but where does that leave them at each position?
Published: Thursday, March 25th, 2021 @ 12:09 am
By: Daniel Bunting
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Derek Chauvin and George Floyd Knew Each Other and ‘Bumped Heads,’ Says Former Coworker at Nightclub"And so that is going to be an interesting aspect to this case and hopefully upgrading these charges to first-degree murder because we believe he knew who George Floyd was."
Published: Sunday, June 14th, 2020 @ 9:48 pm
By: LifeZette
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For the second time in four days, a coronavirus projection model heavily relied upon by the White House task force has been updated, again dropping the number of projected deaths and hospitalizations.
Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2020 @ 4:28 pm
By: Daily Wire
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This is the second of a two-part series critiquing several redistricting reform proposals in the North Carolina General Assembly on their adherence to principles of redistricting reform.
Published: Sunday, November 3rd, 2019 @ 3:21 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina will improve its 911 services by upgrading the technology that serves as the backbone of the communications system
Published: Tuesday, September 19th, 2017 @ 10:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In a 2011 Pope Center article entitled “Too Many Rhinestones,” Professors T. Norman Van Cott and the late Clarence Deitsch examined Ball State University’s (BSU) grade inflation problem
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2016 @ 10:17 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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As students headed back to school this week, Governor Pat McCrory's priority to equip all North Carolina classrooms with Wi-Fi by 2018 was highlighted at the nationally-recognized Innovation Center (iCenter).
Published: Tuesday, September 6th, 2016 @ 2:39 pm
By: Russell Allen
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Ten years ago, the University of North Carolina began raising minimum admission requirements for all schools in the system. Those changes worked, helping to raise retention and graduation rates since their implementation. Thirty-five percent of 2005 freshmen graduated four years later. By 2010...
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2015 @ 12:22 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Parents are used to report cards for their school-aged kids. Now, in North Carolina, public schools themselves receive letter grades, A through F.
Published: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015 @ 5:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory unveiled the Connect NC bond proposals that will connect North Carolina cities and towns by building roads, upgrading technology and constructing education facilities.
Published: Friday, April 17th, 2015 @ 5:12 pm
By: Chris Downey
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In 2013, the N.C. General Assembly implemented an A-F school grading system for all public schools in the state. Two years later, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction has released school performance grades for the first time. These grades reflect the performance of schools for the 2013-14...
Published: Monday, February 16th, 2015 @ 10:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For the first time, the state has assigned letter grades to each public school in North Carolina. The grades are designed to allow parents and taxpayers to be better informed about the performance of public schools in their areas and statewide.
Published: Tuesday, February 10th, 2015 @ 4:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's now official: Beginning with the 2015-16 school year, all North Carolina public high schools will be on a 10-point grading scale. Last week the State Board of Education approved the plan to have schools throw out the standard A-B-C-D-F system in favor of a new scale that widens the grade...
Published: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 @ 10:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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The first and only time I ever helped take a political survey was during my undergraduate days at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill back in the 1980s. I was one of many journalism students who made phone calls on behalf of the Carolina Poll, a regular survey of North Carolinians on...
Published: Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ 5:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory signed House Bill 230 into law yesterday, which provides a clearer measurement on how North Carolina’s schools are performing.
Published: Thursday, June 12th, 2014 @ 3:48 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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It happens at the end of every semester. As final grades are computed and entered, faculty all across the United States hear those inner demons talking. Some expound quite loudly; others merely whisper.
Published: Friday, February 7th, 2014 @ 11:13 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In 2008, a committee of faculty members at UNC-Chapel Hill was astounded to discover that the average grade of a Carolina student was 3.213 - well over a B average. Led by Andrew Perrin, a professor of sociology, the school's Educational Policy Committee began looking at how other universities...
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 2:45 am
By: John William Pope Center
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As the fall semester came to an end, I was reminded of the importance of teaching politics through primary sources. While grading my finals I received one of those gratifying emails from a student who had just completed my Principles of American Government course.
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 4:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Economic Development Commissions 10 year quest for the relocation of large employers wasted millions of dollars and mired the county in idle infrastructure which is uselessly degrading with time.
Published: Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 @ 11:27 pm
By: Warren Smith
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