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College students are having to go back and learn the basics.
Published: Monday, September 25th, 2023 @ 7:13 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Engineering grad combines love of nature, math to better the world
Published: Thursday, December 15th, 2022 @ 8:53 am
By: ECU News Services
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For reasons unexplained, American Federation of Teachers union chief Randi Weingarten announced Monday morning that she would be heading to the Ukrainian border to “assess” the damage after Russia bombarded the Eastern European nation.
Published: Thursday, November 10th, 2022 @ 4:07 am
By: Daily Wire
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Our legislators were correct in forcing the issue to reopen our schools.
Published: Sunday, February 28th, 2021 @ 10:41 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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I am addressing these comments to the commissioners, the school board and the citizens of Beaufort County.
Published: Sunday, August 9th, 2020 @ 8:39 am
By: Ray Leary
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The COVID-19 pandemic probably won’t kill the SAT, but will no doubt leave it in a badly weakened condition.
Published: Friday, June 26th, 2020 @ 6:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Many years ago the head of Sears Roebuck’s advertising department reported that half of all the dollars they spent on advertising was wasted, he just didn’t know which half.
Published: Thursday, June 18th, 2020 @ 10:05 am
By: Tom Campbell
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North Carolina’s Republican legislators say they were left out of focus groups for a major education report that could seriously affect future policymaking.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2020 @ 11:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2019 @ 8:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We cannot deny that the Democrats and those on the left are engaging in some terribly troubling and questionable conduct.
Published: Tuesday, August 20th, 2019 @ 11:41 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Around 1 in 4 Recent High School Graduates Enrolled in Remedial Courses
Published: Sunday, December 31st, 2017 @ 1:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library at East Carolina University hosted "Potion Power: Medicinal Herb Discoveries for Kids" on July 19 for nearly 100 children and parents as part of a botanical exhibit from ECU's Country Doctor Museum
Published: Monday, August 28th, 2017 @ 2:28 pm
By: ECU News Services
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It looks like somebody lives at the rabbit patch today. Kyle and I worked yesterday, the better part of the day, restoring order to the territory.
Published: Friday, April 7th, 2017 @ 12:31 am
By: Michele Rhem
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One-Third Of Recent High School Graduates Need Remediation
Published: Friday, November 4th, 2016 @ 8:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The checkout line was stalled and grew long. "What's taking so long," one impatient customer groused
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 7:28 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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As I have often noted, higher education has its critics both on the right and the left.
Published: Wednesday, May 25th, 2016 @ 3:16 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Engineering and Math go hand in hand in discouraging your college major
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2016 @ 2:34 am
By: Bobby Tony
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America's national obsession with raising our "educational attainment" level leads politicians and bureaucrats to focus on the silliest of things. Lately, that has been college accreditation.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:16 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Last year, 42 percent of recent high school graduates enrolled in one or more remedial or "developmental" math and/or English courses at a North Carolina community college.
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 6:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last year, 42 percent of recent high school graduates enrolled in one or more remedial or "developmental" math and/or English courses at a North Carolina community college.
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2015 @ 12:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Common Core Standards is a private and federal initiative to reform public education into one that spits out workers, not thinkers
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 11:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Eleven-year-old Ross Pennington came to East Carolina University with no experience but was playing the guitar by the end of his first class at the annual summer Guitar Festival and Workshop.
Published: Monday, July 27th, 2015 @ 1:46 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Texas, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New York, and North Carolina are in an exclusive club. Can you guess its membership policy?
Published: Saturday, July 25th, 2015 @ 9:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that North Carolina will receive more than $23 million to expand Wi-Fi access to K-12 classrooms throughout the state, bringing the total funding for this initiative to nearly $40 million.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 7:05 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Over half of students who graduated in 2013 and subsequently enrolled in a North Carolina community college took one or more remedial or "developmental" courses in math and/or English.
Published: Monday, January 19th, 2015 @ 7:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last year, I was one of the first to report that the 2012-13 community college remediation rate for recent graduates of North Carolina high schools was 63 percent. Thanks to the outstanding staff at the N.C. Community College System office in Raleigh, I have obtained the 2013-14 statewide rate.
Published: Saturday, December 6th, 2014 @ 11:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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