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Politicians are usually eager to be generous with the money taken from taxpayers, especially when it helps them gain favor with some interest group
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Every year, my organization, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), issues its annual Spotlight on Speech Codes report in which we rate the speech codes of more than 400 of the largest and most prestigious colleges and universities in America using a red, yellow, and green light s
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:27 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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North Carolina's leading think tank devoted to colleges and universities is ushering in a new era in its history. Dr. Jenna Robinson recently took the job of president and executive director of the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy. Robinson discussed her new role with...
Published: Monday, June 8th, 2015 @ 9:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When Columbia University's Multicultural Affairs Advisory Board complained a few weeks ago that "many texts in the Western canon [contain] triggering and offensive material that marginalizes student identities," I thought of China, whose education minister vowed to ban...
Published: Thursday, May 28th, 2015 @ 10:16 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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For years, North Carolina policymakers have stressed the importance of increasing K-12 teacher production and retention rates. Teacher shortages and high attrition rates in rural and low-income areas and in fields such as secondary math and science and special education have prompted many...
Published: Sunday, February 1st, 2015 @ 8:42 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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As the academic year begins, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, now with a new chairman, John Fennebresque, must make some choices.
Published: Tuesday, September 9th, 2014 @ 5:57 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Ever since 2006, when Margaret Spellings, then the U.S. secretary of education, issued a report stressing the need for higher graduation rates at colleges and universities, there has been pressure on universities to award more diplomas.
Published: Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 @ 2:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We welcome the John William Pope Center for Education Policy to our growing readership, and expect our readers to learn all they can to do their part in this wise endeavor to better educate our People.
Published: Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 @ 4:53 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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It's been weeks since children developed their wish lists, and they are about to find out if Santa has brought what they asked for. We here at the Pope Center have put together our own wish list...
Published: Friday, February 22nd, 2013 @ 7:09 am
By: Duke Cheston
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The replacement of Julius Nyang'oro, the disgraced chairman of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's African and African American Studies department, by the department's number two administrator, Eunice Sahle, was...
Published: Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 @ 2:55 pm
By: Jay Schalin
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