While crafting the state budget last year, the North Carolina General Assembly applied the latest empirical research to the question of how best to improve teacher quality. In response, lawmakers have been roundly excoriated by the usual suspects — which only served to demonstrate that the...
Published: Wednesday, April 30th, 2014 @ 11:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Liberal politicians, left-wing activists, and the teacher union may not like it, but the North Carolina General Assembly is not about to abandon its reforms of teacher hiring, firing, and compensation. That's because the lawmakers who enacted them are familiar with the empirical research about what
Published: Monday, April 7th, 2014 @ 8:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The UNC School of the Arts and UNC-Greensboro want to create two new master of fine arts programs which - especially to those outside academia - appear to be duplicative. UNCSA wants to confer MFAs in filmmaking, and UNCG wants to confer MFAs in media production.
Published: Thursday, January 30th, 2014 @ 2:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University's graduate programs in nursing and business rank among the nation's best in online education according to a listing released today by U.S. News & World Report.
Published: Wednesday, January 8th, 2014 @ 5:32 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Student loan defaults continue to cause problems in this country. As recently as 2010, nearly 375,000 students defaulted within two years of beginning repayment. One idea put forward to address the issue involves assigning more responsibility for defaults to colleges and universities themselves...
Published: Sunday, December 8th, 2013 @ 2:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A faculty member recognized by the University of North Carolina system for his work in cardiac psychology will deliver the commencement address at East Carolina University on Dec. 13.
Published: Saturday, December 7th, 2013 @ 6:19 am
By: ECU News Services
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Medical and dental students at East Carolina University would pay more in tuition next year under a plan approved Nov. 22 by the Board of Trustees during its regular meeting.
Published: Thursday, November 28th, 2013 @ 1:08 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The N.C. Community College System recently released its annual Developmental Enrollment of High School Graduates report.
Published: Saturday, November 2nd, 2013 @ 9:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public universities are facing a new economic reality, as states decide to reduce funding and expect a lot more fiscal accountability. Now, in response, schools are cutting costs, raising tuition, and sometimes both. Jenna Ashley Robinson, outreach coordinator for the Pope Center for Higher...
Published: Saturday, September 28th, 2013 @ 12:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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My facility with math is due to good teaching and good textbooks. I fully expected the same for my daughter, but after seeing what passed for mathematics in her elementary school, I became increasingly distressed over how math is currently taught in many schools.
Published: Wednesday, August 14th, 2013 @ 6:42 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Scott Ralls, president of the North Carolina Community College System, says he noticed a problem with remedial education in the state's community...
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2013 @ 9:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The governing board of the N.C. Community College System recognized Beaufort County Community College's Academic Excellence Award winner at a ceremony held recently on the BCCC campus.
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 12:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Bragg, a West Point graduate, was an army full general during the American Civil War. Image courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC.
Published: Monday, February 18th, 2013 @ 12:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Speakers at a recent conference at Wake Forest University agreed that it is hard for English majors (and other liberal arts majors) to find jobs after graduation. However, they maintained that, although colleges could do more to help them find jobs, liberal arts remains a worthwhile field of study.
Published: Wednesday, June 13th, 2012 @ 11:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I was surprised after I graduated from college that employers were not lining up outside my door fighting over me. That was the picture that my private, liberal-arts college depicted while I was completing my degree.
Published: Friday, April 27th, 2012 @ 3:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It was supposed to be the weekend when a young man might pivot to a life more representative of one that is a good mix of happiness and success.
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2011 @ 10:07 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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