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Teaching children to read
Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2026 @ 12:54 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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Where are the students?
Published: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 11:18 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Refusing to look inward, opponents of school choice insist the only thing needed to improve public schools is more money
Published: Wednesday, May 31st, 2023 @ 5:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Scores in math and reading declined at the worst level in decades for students during the pandemic, according to a new assessment.
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2022 @ 1:05 am
By: Daily Wire
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Today, the U.S. Department of Education released the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Long-Term Trend results.
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2022 @ 2:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores for the 2018 administration of U.S. history, civics, and geography tests were released in a series of highlight reports today.
Published: Tuesday, April 28th, 2020 @ 6:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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These have not been good weeks for anyone who watches the landscape of public education.
Published: Tuesday, December 10th, 2019 @ 10:46 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Last week, the Education Law Center published "Making the Grade 2019," a report that focuses exclusively on three categories of public school inputs: funding levels, distribution, and effort using data from the 2016-17 school year.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2019 @ 4:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Massachusetts has consistently been at or near the top of the list in reading and math achievement, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
Published: Tuesday, April 17th, 2018 @ 2:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you recently read or heard about North Carolina ranking 40th in "education" and found that rank plausible, I thank you for keeping up with the news
Published: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018 @ 4:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The annual testing data and report cards for North Carolina's public schools are out
Published: Tuesday, September 19th, 2017 @ 12:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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That’s what I’d tell NC Policy Watch crybabies who continue to assert the policies of Republican legislators don’t support public education
Published: Sunday, July 9th, 2017 @ 12:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Last week Duke’s Children Law Clinic released its study of North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), School Vouchers in North Carolina: The First Three Years
Published: Friday, March 17th, 2017 @ 2:19 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina's public schools are currently producing better results than you might think, according to a recent analysis of independent testing data
Published: Saturday, March 12th, 2016 @ 3:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that North Carolina is among nine states to win approval of its Excellent Educators for All plan by the U.S. Department of Education.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 9:40 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The News & Observer is doing its darnedest to ignore the growing criticism of Common Core standards. The paper's recent editorial "Defending Common Core" was an exercise in putting lipstick on a pig.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:32 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina schools got a mixed report from the latest independent tests, known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 4:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Every two years, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) administers rigorous math and reading tests to a representative sample of fourth- and eighth-grade students from each state and Washington, D.C. NAEP occasionally administers assessments covering other subjects, grade-levels...
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 3:47 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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Call me a starry-eyed optimist. I don't assume that those who disagree with me about school reform are out to destroy the education system. I assume they share my goal of expanding educational opportunities and getting a better rate of return on money spent on schools. We simply disagree about...
Published: Saturday, May 23rd, 2015 @ 2:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a project of the U.S. Department of Education, administers U.S. history, geography, and civics assessments once every four years. In 2014, a representative sample of over 29,000 eighth-grade students from across the nation took one of the...
Published: Wednesday, April 29th, 2015 @ 6:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s public schools have just released end-of-grade and end-of-course test scores for the 2013-14 school year.
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 4:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have been discussing teacher pay rankings for years. In fact, three years ago I wrote a newsletter piece titled, Education spending in North Carolina: The ranking problem. In that piece, I outlined the major problems associated with the National Education Association (NEA) rankings of teacher...
Published: Sunday, August 3rd, 2014 @ 9:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Tuesday, December 17th, the NC General Assembly Common Core Study Committee held its first public hearing to address Common Core. I attended, as well as other activists and Tea Party leaders all across the state.
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2014 @ 10:34 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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As I was poking around the internet the other day, I came across definitive proof that those folks who tell us that we must spend additional money on education if we are ever going to see any improvements in the outcomes may well be right. Hmmm...
Published: Monday, November 25th, 2013 @ 5:21 am
By: Jim Bispo
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A memorable example dates back to March 4, 1999, when the governing board of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released the results of national reading exams. They showed that North Carolina was one of only five states that posted significant gains in 4th-grade reading...
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2013 @ 1:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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How many North Carolinians know that public school education in the state is centered around the government's Common Core initiative?
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2013 @ 9:15 am
By: Diane Rufino
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School accountability comes in two forms. Either parents keep schools accountable by "voting with their feet" or states compel public school districts to administer standardized tests.
Published: Thursday, September 20th, 2012 @ 2:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Between 1996 and 2012, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction authored, field-tested, administered, and analyzed nearly all end-of-grade and end-of-course tests under the ABCs of Public Education accountability program.
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2012 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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