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Beaufort County Community College is proud to announce that mathematics professor Ashley Knox was recognized by her peers with the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program (ECP) Award.
Published: Thursday, October 12th, 2023 @ 1:32 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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Beaufort County school board adopted a math curriculum riddled with DEI
Published: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 8:37 pm
By: John Steed
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RALEIGH: Governor Roy Cooper has proclaimed April as STEM Education Month in North Carolina to highlight the positive impacts of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and recognize STEM educators across the state that are preparing students for the jobs of today and tomorrow.
Published: Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 @ 8:01 am
By: Governor's Office
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Nontraditional ECU mathematics graduate student continues family legacy of Pirate alumni
Published: Friday, December 16th, 2022 @ 6:21 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The Inner Banks STEM Center, Beaufort County Schools, and Beaufort County Schools partnered to bring over 200 seventh graders from Beaufort County onto the campus of BCCC to learn first-hand about the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics career options
Published: Thursday, December 15th, 2022 @ 10:23 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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Learning loss in huge problem in the United States. A July 2021 analysis by McKinsey & Company consulting found that by the end of the school year, students were on average five months behind in mathematics and four months behind in reading.
Published: Friday, March 11th, 2022 @ 5:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state budget impasse won’t affect recent college-bound graduates of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2019 @ 2:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Ahead of Women’s Equality Day on August 26, the NC Department of Administration (DOA) launched a new mentorship program on July 1, to address gender equity in North Carolina within the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Published: Tuesday, August 13th, 2019 @ 11:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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East Carolina University’s College of Engineering and Technology has received a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Program (S-STEM)
Published: Monday, August 12th, 2019 @ 12:35 am
By: ECU News Services
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My Administration will do everything possible to provide our children, especially kids in underserved areas, with access to high-quality education in science, technology, engineering, and math.
Published: Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 @ 1:46 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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If there's a universe in which lowering the cap on North Carolina's income tax rate amounts to a "tax cut only for the wealthy," our universe's rules of mathematics - and language - must not apply
Published: Thursday, August 23rd, 2018 @ 11:25 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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East Carolina University welcomed 300 high school juniors to campus Friday, April 8, for hands-on learning in STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), as part of the 5th annual High School STEM Day. Attendance included 16 high schools from nine counties across eastern...
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2016 @ 1:40 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Wednesday marked the five-year anniversary of the adoption of the Common Core State Standards in North Carolina. How did you celebrate?
Published: Saturday, June 20th, 2015 @ 12:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Buick Achievers Scholarship Program, sponsored by the General Motors Foundation, awarded scholarships to three North Carolina college students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects.
Published: Thursday, August 14th, 2014 @ 8:54 am
By: Christopher Maye
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The NC General Assembly should create two permanent commissions that would be charged with raising the quality and rigor of state English Language Arts and mathematics standards, curricula, and assessments.
Published: Sunday, March 2nd, 2014 @ 10:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nearly 100 eighth grade girls from 12 Pitt County middle schools attended the fourth annual STEM Girls conference Oct. 4 at East Carolina University to learn more about majors and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Published: Friday, October 11th, 2013 @ 1:45 pm
By: ECU News Services
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American students test poorly in mathematics when compared to students in other developed countries. Even students in some "developing" countries post higher math scores than Americans. Dr. Jacob Vigdor, professor of public policy and economics at Duke University, has researched the topic...
Published: Thursday, October 10th, 2013 @ 9:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Common Core is a national effort, powered by private interests and the federal government, to impose untested academic content standards for English language arts and mathematics on all K-12 public schools across the nation.
Published: Friday, September 6th, 2013 @ 6:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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In a previous article, I highlighted questionable assumptions underlying national Common Core Standards (CCS) in English and mathematics, which in 2010 were adopted by the North Carolina State Board of Education.
Published: Saturday, April 13th, 2013 @ 10:09 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In 2010 the North Carolina State Board of Education unanimously adopted national Common Core Standards (CCS) in English and mathematics.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 9:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Nearly 300 students and other campus visitors got a look into the future of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, careers recently on the Beaufort County Community College campus.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 @ 8:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A 40-foot learning lab that lets visitors look into the future of science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers will be available for public tours 4 to 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, at Beaufort County Community College.
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 1:33 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina's efforts in improving education appear to be paying dividends. A comparative study of student achievement found our fourth and eighth grade students ranked highly with students in other states and other countries.
Published: Saturday, December 15th, 2012 @ 5:05 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Along with most other states, North Carolina is in the process of adopting new Common Core national standards for reading and mathematics. The good news is that the Common Core is much better than North Carolina's previously reading and math standards.
Published: Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 @ 2:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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From now until the end of the year (and probably longer than that) we are going to be hearing more than we ever wanted to about budgeting, continuing resolutions, appropriations, and most disconcerting of all, the political mathematics used in getting from one to the other.
Published: Thursday, September 29th, 2011 @ 1:52 am
By: Jim Bispo
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