In his budget proposal, Common Ground Solutions for North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper proposed adding $15 million to the Smart Start program, a public private partnership focused on early childhood health and education.
Published: Monday, May 8th, 2017 @ 8:35 am
By: Governor's Office
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In his budget proposal, Common Ground Solutions for North Carolina, Governor Cooper proposed adding $15 million to the Smart Start program, a public private partnership focused on early childhood health and education
Published: Thursday, May 4th, 2017 @ 11:44 pm
By: Governor's Office
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When we used to Stare we had time to think. Great things happened when we used to think. Now we are too distracted.
Published: Friday, August 26th, 2016 @ 10:09 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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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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Be sure to read all the way through because the Big Thing is not the Big Thing you are thinking it is.
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2016 @ 4:55 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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The poor guy was all alone in the midst of 40 other people.
Published: Monday, May 2nd, 2016 @ 4:51 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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It's happening again: a topic catches my eye and suddenly I see it everywhere until usually it disappears. The topic of cursive writing or the lack thereof caught my attention a few years back but has yet to show any signs of fading away.
Published: Sunday, April 3rd, 2016 @ 12:07 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Actually, the question is, "how smart do others think you are?" I found this article in the WSJ fascinating: How to Look Smarter.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2016 @ 4:06 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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The smartest man who ever lived in the entire history of humankind on the face of the earth is about to publish an open email to every email address in the entire world.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:32 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has received a $679,000 grant award to expand a specialty mental health probation pilot program to Brunswick, McDowell, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Orange and Durham counties. The grant comes from the...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:17 am
By: Chris Downey
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Incoming students with learning disabilities are gaining valuable experience using assistive learning technology through a summer program at East Carolina University.
Published: Friday, July 10th, 2015 @ 10:26 pm
By: ECU News Services
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This is the simple truth of any well functioning republic.
Published: Saturday, April 25th, 2015 @ 11:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In light of recent nationwide concerns about antibiotic-resistant infections, N.C. Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Public Health (DPH) is encouraging healthcare providers and the public to use antibiotics carefully and appropriately to limit the spread of antibiotic...
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2015 @ 1:27 am
By: Chris Downey
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With a philosophical gulf still separating the state House and Senate on how best to reform the costly Medicaid program, Illinois is reporting multibillion-dollar success in a reform plan that closely resembles North Carolina Senate Republicans' framework for the future.
Published: Sunday, February 8th, 2015 @ 9:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the 2014 election cycle draws to a close, few states have drawn so much national attention as North Carolina, thanks to the tight Hagan-Tillis race, the dramatic turn in state government from blue to red, and our status as a presidential swing state in 2008 and 2012.
Published: Friday, October 31st, 2014 @ 10:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The headlines sounded great. 56 percent of our students passed their end of grade tests, compared to just 44 percent last year.
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 8:58 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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I am still shaking my head in disbelief at Judge Hobgood's ruling judge that school vouchers are "unconstitutional."
Published: Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014 @ 11:06 am
By: Brant Clifton
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I've made this point before, but it's worth emphasizing one more time: those who oppose school choice in elementary and secondary education should, if they wish to be consistent, oppose former Gov. Jim Hunt's Smart Start program and former Gov. Mike Easley's More At Four program, now known as NC Pre
Published: Saturday, May 10th, 2014 @ 4:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Why does the Left oppose school choice? It can't be because they oppose tax dollars going to private, even faith-based institutions. For decades, state and federal subsidies have flowed to private colleges and universities, including sectarian institutions. For decades, Medicare and Medicaid...
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:53 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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If state leaders want to improve North Carolina's education system in the future, they will have to begin with a better understanding of the history of school reform in our state.
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 @ 2:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For those happy few who may be unfamiliar with the term "smart classroom," it refers to an ordinary teaching-space fitted out with a desktop PC and monitor, a document camera, a multi-discriminating disc-player for CDs, DVDs and BluRay discs; a high-fidelity stereo speaker system, a digital projecto
Published: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014 @ 5:14 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Day care prices across the nation have been rising at a dramatic clip for years. In many cases, the cost to parents for a toddler in day care is more expensive than sending their teen to a high-quality private high school.
Published: Sunday, January 5th, 2014 @ 6:38 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Traffic jams happen when too many cars try to traverse too little roadway. Thus there are two main ways to reduce the number of traffic jams. One is to reduce the number of cars trying to travel the same road at the same time. The other is to increase the road capacity that cars can travel.
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 @ 6:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper sounded much like a candidate for governor Monday morning when the four-term Democrat addressed the media at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 2:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Around the nation this spring, simmering parental anger over student testing boiled over into all-out revolt. As testing increasingly co-opts curriculum and classroom, many parents have grown weary of talk, talk, talk. No glib platitudes can quell this uprising; instead, moms and dads are taking...
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2013 @ 9:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In recent years, an increasing number of local governments across the nation and across North Carolina have adopted “Smart Growth” policies. While the specific policies differ by community, the emphasis is invariably upon restricting...
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2013 @ 2:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the most controversial issues in the past few years has been the growing role of the state in providing preschool opportunities to North Carolina children.
Published: Monday, October 22nd, 2012 @ 4:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A system based on "flex growth" makes more sense than so-called "smart growth" as North Carolina and its local governments set their development and transportation policies. That's the conclusion in a new John Locke Foundation Policy Report.
Published: Monday, September 17th, 2012 @ 11:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The cult commonly known as the Smart Growth movement has proven to be remarkably resilient in the face of empirical adversity.
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2012 @ 9:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The News & Observer recently reported that 20 solar-powered "Big Belly" trash cans are being installed in the Glenwood South entertainment and restaurant district. These trash cans automatically compact the trash and, when full, signal city crews to empty them.
Published: Saturday, June 9th, 2012 @ 7:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's two major preschool initiatives, Smart Start and More at Four, have been the subject of political claims and controversies ever since their creation.
Published: Sunday, March 11th, 2012 @ 10:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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