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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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Last week, the State Board of Education approved a resolution to move ahead with a framework to create a new way to license and pay teachers. Currently teachers are paid based on their years of experience.
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2022 @ 12:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has thrown down the gauntlet to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten — whom he has described as “the most dangerous person in the world” — challenging her to a debate.
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2022 @ 11:18 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Beaufort County Community College is proud to announce that English professor Justin Littlefield was recognized by his peers with the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program (ECP) Award.
Published: Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 @ 3:30 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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A long-anticipated report from an education consulting group suggests North Carolina should boost public school spending by at least $8 billion over the next eight years to satisfy its constitutional obligations.
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2019 @ 8:33 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Since No Child Left Behind became law in 2002, state and local educators have tried to square the figurative circle: letting students learn at their own pace while also making sure they meet rigorous standards
Published: Saturday, August 5th, 2017 @ 2:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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The way East Carolina University's medical students serve the communities of North Carolina is earning international recognition for the Brody School of Medicine
Published: Sunday, July 24th, 2016 @ 5:36 am
By: ECU News Services
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Results from an employer survey recently released by the University of North Carolina system suggest that graduates of the state's 16 public universities - especially those from less selective schools - are deficient in terms of their written and oral communication, work ethic, and workplace...
Published: Thursday, August 13th, 2015 @ 5:38 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Starting next fall, N.C. Central University, Elizabeth City State University, and Fayetteville State University will be allowed to admit students with SAT scores as low as 750 (the current systemwide minimum is 800).
Published: Friday, November 28th, 2014 @ 12:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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From 2009 to 2013, the University of North Carolina system gradually increased its minimum admission standards. Students entering UNC schools this fall had to score at least 800 on combined math and verbal SAT tests to be admitted.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 5:08 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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When the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released its first comprehensive review of education programs in 2013, many K-12 education reformers were enthusiastic. Prominent news coverage and support from school superintendents called attention to the need to improve teacher preparation.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 1:17 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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One would think that the process of comparing and reporting test scores would be a straightforward matter. In North Carolina, state standardized testing is anything but straightforward.
Published: Monday, September 15th, 2014 @ 12:44 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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One year ago, the UNC system's general administration and Board of Governors published an ambitious set of plans for the state's 17 public universities called Our Time, Our Future: The UNC Compact with North Carolina. One of those plans aims to revamp general education curricula. It seeks to...
Published: Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 @ 9:07 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Teachers finding their schedules packed with testing would get relief from education reforms promised by Gov. Pat McCrory and top Republican lawmakers, who say students would benefit from a streamlined list of required state and local exams.
Published: Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 @ 4:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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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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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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