Not much, it would seem. Yet according to the latest data, they are among the states leading the national pack in economic performance. The closer you look at the list of top performers, the more you start to see patterns that help explain why some states are faring well and others aren't within...
Published: Sunday, December 7th, 2014 @ 10:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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How much of your money is spent to educate one high school graduate in North Carolina? $50,000? $75,000? Our new analysis shows that North Carolina taxpayers spend about $150,000 for each student who receives a high school diploma...
Published: Thursday, October 23rd, 2014 @ 6:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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About 70 East Carolina University students were willing to forgo fall break for the chance to dance with an internationally-known company.
Published: Monday, October 20th, 2014 @ 6:51 pm
By: ECU News Services
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How is North Carolina's economy doing? That is always an important question. During election season, however, it takes on added significance. Fairly or not, voters often hold incumbent politicians responsible for the condition and recent performance of the economy.
Published: Monday, September 29th, 2014 @ 11:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University's School of Theatre and Dance is kicking off the 2014-2015 ECU/Loessin Playhouse series with the Dance @ Wright showcase, a multi-genre concert that features everything from ballet to hip-hop, on Sept. 19 - 21.
Published: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014 @ 8:29 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Twenty graduates of Beaufort County Community College's Practical Nursing program received their nursing school pins Wednesday, July 16, in a ceremony, which is a traditional rite of passage for nursing school graduates across the country.
Published: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 @ 7:27 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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After years of rejecting progressives’ class warfare argument about “the haves” and the “have-nots,” I’m a bit embarrassed to acknowledge they’ve been right all along.
Published: Tuesday, July 1st, 2014 @ 6:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Jarrod Harris Performs Stand-Up at Washington's Turnage Theatre This Weekend.
Published: Friday, June 20th, 2014 @ 4:24 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Governor Pat McCrory signed House Bill 230 into law yesterday, which provides a clearer measurement on how North Carolina’s schools are performing.
Published: Thursday, June 12th, 2014 @ 3:48 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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The proposed N.C. Senate budget plan would shift money away from lower priorities to meet the goal of raising public school teacher pay across the state. John Locke Foundation experts reviewing the $21.2 billion plan for 2014-15 like the Senate's focus on spending existing revenue more efficiently.
Published: Sunday, June 1st, 2014 @ 9:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This study synthesizes findings from 888 articles published in peer-reviewed journals or by the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1990. We focus on studies that explore relationships between inputs or policies (such as per-pupil expenditure, average teacher salary, class size...
Published: Saturday, May 24th, 2014 @ 3:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Following the news of the death of Joyce Pope, State Budget Director Art Pope's mother, Governor Pat McCrory released the following statement...
Published: Thursday, May 22nd, 2014 @ 9:55 pm
By: Chris Downey
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If all you know about North Carolina's recent economic performance is what you get from Twitter feeds, partisan press releases, or brief mentions on television newscasts, then much of what you "know" is flat wrong.
Published: Thursday, May 15th, 2014 @ 7:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have NO PROBLEM with anything you say. I used to type up my mother's tests on that smelly alcohol duplicator stencil.
Published: Wednesday, May 7th, 2014 @ 6:41 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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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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In his book Education Myths, University of Arkansas professor Jay Greene pointed out that the myth of inadequately funded schools "is simultaneously the most widely held idea about education in America and the one that is most directly at odds with the available evidence."
Published: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 @ 10:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Fair warning: I may be about to bore you to distraction. Is there any more potent political issue in North Carolina than education? Probably not. As allies of the teachers union, Democrats hope to ride the issue back into power in Raleigh, at least by 2016. As advocates of performance pay and...
Published: Sunday, March 9th, 2014 @ 9:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two new permanent commissions should help North Carolina leaders decide whether to modify or replace controversial Common Core public school standards. That's the recommendation the John Locke Foundation's top education expert puts forward in a new Spotlight report.
Published: Monday, February 24th, 2014 @ 5:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What high school curriculum best prepares a student for college? Which majors yield the highest-paying jobs? Does being held back in kindergarten ultimately help or hurt lifelong educational performance?
Published: Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 @ 2:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It has been nearly three years since the left-leaning Center for American Progress published a superb report, Return on Educational Investment: A District-by-District Evaluation of U.S. Educational Productivity. In the report, CAP Senior Fellow Ulrich Boser made the case that decades of...
Published: Monday, December 16th, 2013 @ 9:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As North Carolina and the rest of the country continue a painfully slow recovery from a painful recession, there is no more important question in public policy than how best to create sustained economic growth.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 @ 12:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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House Bill 803, Healthy and High Performance Schools Act, is a lengthy bill filled with mind-numbing amounts of detail in an attempt to micro-manage the lives of schoolchildren.
Published: Sunday, June 30th, 2013 @ 7:55 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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In state politics, most people cite the unemployment rate as a proxy for the performance of North Carolina's economy. They also tend to describe...
Published: Sunday, June 9th, 2013 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Student end-of-course evaluations are widely used by colleges and universities to determine the success of courses and the effectiveness of their instructors. Schools often use such student feedback even to determine instructors...
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 @ 1:51 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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While gathering some performance metrics for North Carolina policy nonprofits, I noticed an interesting trend in the data from the microblogging site Twitter. While you might think that the most-followed Twitter accounts on...
Published: Monday, March 18th, 2013 @ 1:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new performance audit shows that the N.C. Industrial Commission has been lax in monitoring data to make sure North Carolina businesses are keeping up with their duty to provide workers' compensation insurance for their employees.
Published: Friday, February 22nd, 2013 @ 7:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We love to report on music that is performed in our region. We are thankful that our readers want to know about what good music that fortunately prevails where they live.
Published: Monday, September 19th, 2011 @ 12:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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