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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A new school year is weeks away, leaving ambitious high schoolers to anticipate schedules packed with Advanced Placement classes
Published: Tuesday, August 21st, 2018 @ 11:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the Administration's top priorities is providing more Americans the opportunity to obtain relevant education and skills that lead to a good job.
Published: Saturday, September 30th, 2017 @ 9:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In 2006, I clipped a "Non Sequitur" cartoon that captured perfectly the mystique that surrounds our nation's universities
Published: Friday, October 28th, 2016 @ 10:16 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Parents, test prep experts, and college counselors give careful thought in working with students as they approach the crucial "college entrance exam."
Published: Tuesday, October 25th, 2016 @ 4:10 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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North Carolina high school students have bucked a national trend of declining test scores by posting gains on the SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) tests, according to a report released today by The College Board.
Published: Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 @ 9:21 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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The current legislative session has been hailed in most quarters as a success, yet much remains to be done
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2016 @ 9:13 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Project Veritas, the investigative journalism outfit led by James O'Keefe and known for explosive undercover videos, released their latest work - an investigation into Common Core and the big money being made off the controversial standards.
Published: Friday, April 22nd, 2016 @ 1:37 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Teen geniuses and word wizards just lost their competitive edge with the nation's most established college admissions exam.
Published: Sunday, March 27th, 2016 @ 9:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ten years ago, the University of North Carolina began raising minimum admission requirements for all schools in the system. Those changes worked, helping to raise retention and graduation rates since their implementation. Thirty-five percent of 2005 freshmen graduated four years later. By 2010...
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2015 @ 12:22 am
By: John William Pope Center
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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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The Common Core Standards is a private and federal initiative to reform public education into one that spits out workers, not thinkers
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 11:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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E. M. Forster's frightening short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) depicts a post-apocalyptic world in which all human activity has been subsumed by a global digital network similar to the Internet (except that Forster's version is controlled by a worldwide government bureaucracy)...
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 2:40 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Since the 1960s, the academic history profession has changed markedly. Traditional fields such as military history, diplomatic history, intellectual history, religious history, and political history have been deemphasized, when not completely eliminated.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 6:35 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A new advanced placement course in U.S. history has generated serious debate over exactly what information students should be taught in North Carolina public schools about our country's founding. Dr. Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation director of research and education studies, discussed the...
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 10:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina legislators, education officials, and concerned citizens are debating two aspects of the Advanced Placement U.S. History course, which has been revised recently by the College Board.
Published: Saturday, December 27th, 2014 @ 8:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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College students are heading home for the holidays, but the University of North Carolina's Board of Governors continues its work. The Pope Center for Higher Education Policy believes the BOG has plenty of opportunities to improve North Carolina's 16-campus university system. Jane Shaw, president...
Published: Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014 @ 11:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Beaufort County Community College Board of Trustees welcomed three new members at its recent meeting. Taking the oath of office and joining the board were Jim Chesnutt, Jackson Lancaster and Bill Wall.
Published: Thursday, October 30th, 2014 @ 12:26 am
By: Judy Jennette
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When the Common Core state standards for K-12 were rolled out in 2009, few foresaw the impact on higher education. Alarms about the takeover of the entire educational system with the new national standards and tests in math and English language arts were often dismissed.
Published: Friday, September 19th, 2014 @ 10:34 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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As the academic year begins, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, now with a new chairman, John Fennebresque, must make some choices.
Published: Tuesday, September 9th, 2014 @ 5:57 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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One of North Carolina’s largest school districts is calling on the College Board to delay for one year its new Advanced Placement U.S. History course, labeling it an inaccurate, deeply biased, revisionist view of America.
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2014 @ 8:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As students head back to high school this fall, they and their parents will quickly discover that much of traditional American history taught in Advanced Placement (AP) courses for college credit is being rewritten with a distinctive left-leaning bias.
Published: Friday, July 25th, 2014 @ 2:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Almost as much awaited as the yearly U.S. News & World Report college rankings is the annual Princeton Review ranking of the top "party schools." By Princeton Review's analysis, the top party school this year is (drumroll)...the University of Iowa. Congratulations, Hawkeyes. You beat out the Univers
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 2:34 am
By: John William Pope Center
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At some schools, usually independent (not accepting federal dollars) and religious, students read old books, including Plato’s Republic.
Published: Sunday, December 29th, 2013 @ 11:40 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Every few years, The College Board releases a report entitled Education Pays: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society. It had not done so since 2010, until the latest version. These reports have a perfectly consistent message, namely that college education is all good. It...
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 @ 1:48 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Dr. Laura Staton, a retired physician and volunteer with local youth-support programs, has joined the Beaufort County Community College Board of Trustees. She was appointed to the college board by Gov. Pat McCrory.
Published: Monday, October 28th, 2013 @ 7:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ashley Woolard, a resident of Washington and former candidate for the U.S. Congress, has joined the Beaufort County Community College Board of Trustees. He was appointed to the college board by the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners.
Published: Sunday, September 22nd, 2013 @ 2:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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