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APA ‘radical shift away from medicine and science,’ fellow professionals say
Published: Friday, January 5th, 2024 @ 9:27 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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As the 2024 presidential election countdown gets underway, voters are starting to identify which candidate to support going into what we know will be a momentous election.
Published: Tuesday, November 14th, 2023 @ 1:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A local 6th grader has been suspended and sent home from school after he was found to be in possession of a history textbook with an offensive image of an American flag on the cover.
Published: Wednesday, November 1st, 2023 @ 8:24 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Textbook evil
Published: Monday, July 31st, 2023 @ 9:23 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Baal, the ancient Mesopotamian deity described in scripture and demonological textbooks such as Pseudomonarchia Daemonum has distanced itself from Balenciaga after the company's recent scandal.
Published: Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 @ 12:07 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Teachers from a Southern California school district are allegedly teaching children through health education textbooks that 10 sexual orientations and eight genders exist.
Published: Tuesday, September 13th, 2022 @ 7:27 am
By: Daily Wire
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A Pennsylvania high school awaiting a delivery of textbooks got a box full of guns instead in a screwup that left educators stunned.
Published: Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 @ 2:58 am
By: Daily Wire
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Leaked reports indicate that Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson spent all Monday night poring over biology textbooks to learn what a woman is so she could defend a woman’s right to abortion on Tuesday.
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 @ 11:46 am
By: Babylon Bee
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The rarely noticed North Carolina Textbook Commission is having a moment. Last week, Club for Growth Action aired a campaign advertisement supporting Rep. Ted Budd that referenced a long-forgotten blog post I wrote in 2014.
Published: Thursday, May 5th, 2022 @ 4:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The little-known North Carolina Textbook Commission was caught in the Senate primary election crossfire this week, after being painted as a body delivering “woke” politics to N.C. classrooms.
Published: Monday, May 2nd, 2022 @ 12:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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SACRAMENTO, CA—The California Department of Education has rejected 100% of biology textbooks from the state's public school curriculum because they perpetuate outdated backward ideas that there are only two genders, said Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday.
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2022 @ 2:26 am
By: Babylon Bee
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others banned for Common Core and Social Emotional Learning
Published: Saturday, April 16th, 2022 @ 5:24 pm
By: John Steed
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A student veteran couldn’t afford textbooks. A donor stepped in to help.
Published: Friday, January 28th, 2022 @ 11:04 am
By: ECU News Services
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The cost of college textbooks has increased at an alarming rate. According to the College Board, the average student spends more than $1,200 on books and materials each year
Published: Friday, November 30th, 2018 @ 9:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As hundreds of bills are filed in the General Assembly, I ask: What problem are lawmakers trying to solve? If there is one, what should government do about it
Published: Monday, March 13th, 2017 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Paying for college is not like paying for other goods and services. The eventual customers, college students, may not always feel the impact of rising college costs. Instead, parents and taxpayers often subsidize much of students' tuition.
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 4:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Seeing the impact of air and speed on objects beats reading a description in a textbook, according to East Carolina University engineering students.
Published: Friday, August 14th, 2015 @ 12:04 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Original documents should play an important role in American history education. That's the approach from Roger Beckett, executive director of the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University. Beckett explained his preference for original historical documents over textbooks during a recent presentation...
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2015 @ 12:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Historians and history majors among our campus community certainly remember the significance of Sunday's date - December 7. The date was designated by Congress in 1994 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. While we take time to remember our veterans and fallen soldiers on other days...
Published: Saturday, December 6th, 2014 @ 4:09 pm
By: Barbara Tansey
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Original documents are much more valuable than textbooks when it comes to teaching students about key issues in American history.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 3:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today
Published: Monday, July 14th, 2014 @ 2:32 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Governor Pat McCrory announced a sweeping array of education initiatives that will increase teacher pay, provide in-state tuition for newly separated veterans, increase funding for textbooks and establish salary supplements for teachers who obtain advanced degrees in a subject they are teaching.
Published: Monday, May 12th, 2014 @ 5:01 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Textbooks and laptops were cast aside in favor of sleds and snow boots at East Carolina University Jan. 29, after a snowstorm dropped 4 to 5 inches of snow and ice on campus.
Published: Thursday, January 30th, 2014 @ 2:10 am
By: ECU News Services
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Recent headlines have called attention to the issue of state public school textbook funding. Partisans have tried to score political points with quotes like the following...
Published: Thursday, January 2nd, 2014 @ 3:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week, the subject of textbook funding has been brought to the fore by an article, and subsequent editorial, published in the News & Observer.
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2013 @ 1:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Political debates about education policy are so contentious that consensus may seem forever out of reach. Yet here's something that virtually everyone agrees is true: academic achievement reflects more than just the value added by teachers, administrators, textbooks, and technology...
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 2:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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My facility with math is due to good teaching and good textbooks. I fully expected the same for my daughter, but after seeing what passed for mathematics in her elementary school, I became increasingly distressed over how math is currently taught in many schools.
Published: Wednesday, August 14th, 2013 @ 6:42 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The GOP establishment is having a conniption over the audacity of Liz Cheney - daughter of the former VPOTUS - daring to challenge the renomination of a sitting GOP senator.
Published: Thursday, July 18th, 2013 @ 11:48 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Not long ago I criticized an introductory course in American government at North Carolina State University, as it was taught in an online section. The reason for my criticism: It was biased. Most of the non-textbook readings seemed to be...
Published: Sunday, June 9th, 2013 @ 4:45 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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