Marion Yurchik, beloved mother and grandmother, passed away peacefully on Saturday, November 18, 2023 at Greendale Forest.
Published: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023 @ 9:26 am
By: Announcements
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The FBI may have abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on the very congressman tasked with overseeing FISA, according to revelations at a congressional hearing Thursday.
Published: Saturday, March 18th, 2023 @ 8:52 am
By: Daily Wire
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Europe already seeing big price increases from imposition of wind and solar
Published: Wednesday, September 15th, 2021 @ 3:55 am
By: John Steed
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The races for seats on the N.C. Council of State were as close as polls predicted. They defined what pollsters call toss-ups, all teetering close to the margin of error.
Published: Friday, November 6th, 2020 @ 12:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The world’s workforce pipeline pulses with top talent, yet American education remains mired in mediocrity.
Published: Monday, January 13th, 2020 @ 11:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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After nearly a six month wait, Judge David Lee has released the long awaited consultant recommendations for North Carolina public schools.
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2019 @ 8:47 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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What should we expect when we invest $150 million in reading programs for our elementary students? I'm not sure what the objectives were, but I am pretty certain the results weren't what anyone wanted
Published: Monday, April 23rd, 2018 @ 12:17 am
By: Tom Campbell
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NC Public Schools Are Not Internationally Competitive
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 @ 12:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If North Carolina were to secede from the union and become an independent country - no, conspiracy theorists, I'm not actually proposing this as a reasonable response to recent political events - how would our education system rank among the other developed nations of the world
Published: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017 @ 1:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Betty Joyce Ward Jenkins, 78, passed away on Monday, April 18, 2016.
Published: Wednesday, April 20th, 2016 @ 11:28 am
By: Announcements
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Ms. Brenda Joyce Warren Peele, age 72, a former resident of Washington, NC died Friday April 15, 2016 at the Vintage Inn of Williamston.
Published: Sunday, April 17th, 2016 @ 2:47 pm
By: Announcements
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Digital devices dominate hopes and headlines in education today. They're heralded as a way to boost learning outcomes, sharpen 21st-century skills, and narrow achievement gaps
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 1:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2012, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) assessed the problem solving skills of a representative sample of 85,000 15-year-olds worldwide, including 1,273 from the United States.
Published: Sunday, April 27th, 2014 @ 9:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The subject was compelling, the issue timely and the conservation was sometimes provocative at this year's Emerging Issues Forum focusing on teachers and the great economic debate.
Published: Thursday, February 13th, 2014 @ 9:29 am
By: Tom Campbell
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On an ordinary Monday morning in a graduate industrial engineering class at North Carolina State University, one would expect to hear talk about statistical analysis, linear programming, or maybe the outcome of the previous weekend's football game. In reality, it is nearly impossible to discern...
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2013 @ 2:54 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Jokes about "Polacks" have always been tasteless and silly. Based on the latest international test scores, trying to get a laugh today by portraying Polish people as ignorant or dumb is a good way to identify yourself as, well, ignorant or dumb.
Published: Friday, December 6th, 2013 @ 1:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Not too many years ago American schools were the best in the world and our kids were the smartest. But that's not true today.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 10:10 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Tomatoes that don't rot for more than a year, fish with glow-in-the-dark blood vessels, sunscreen made from watermelons, and super-cancer-fighting broccoli: those are but a few of the...
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2013 @ 5:04 pm
By: Duke Cheston
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