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One of the biggest casualties of the pandemic has been the opportunity for our children to learn. Closed schools, the difficulty of pivoting to new learning platforms and upended schedules all contributed to a general sense that kids were falling behind academically.
Published: Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 @ 8:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A formidable education story in North Carolina is that the Wake County Public School System is experiencing stagnant growth despite being one of the fastest-growing counties in the state.
Published: Friday, February 28th, 2020 @ 10:43 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory issued the following statement on the death of Maurice Koury
Published: Saturday, March 12th, 2016 @ 4:39 am
By: McCrory Communications
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In Great Britain, as in the United States, a growing moral consensus and a lack of political diversity among faculty and administrators is moving higher education away from the pursuit and transmission of knowledge in favour of the promotion of politically correct values
Published: Sunday, January 31st, 2016 @ 9:56 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Pity poor Emma Sulkowicz lugging a mattress around the Columbia University campus now for almost a full academic year.
Published: Thursday, May 28th, 2015 @ 10:42 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Grade inflation is rampant on American campuses. According to a study by Stuart Rojstaczer and Christopher Healy, A’s represent 43 percent of all grades awarded today—up from 15 percent in 1960.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2015 @ 9:54 am
By: John William Pope Center
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About 25 years ago, American higher education was swept up in the identity studies fad. A great many colleges and universities created courses, departments, degree programs, and related administrative posts in Women's Studies, African-American Studies, Latina/o Studies, Queer Studies, and others.
Published: Sunday, April 19th, 2015 @ 2:17 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Great outrage has erupted from inside the University of North Carolina system due to the closure of three academic centers by the system's Board of Governors. The local media has published story after story by UNC academics excoriating the Governors for everything from a denial of free speech to...
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2015 @ 3:15 am
By: John William Pope Center
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For the eighth straight year, East Carolina University's College of Business ranks among the best in the nation by The Princeton Review.
Published: Saturday, October 18th, 2014 @ 10:49 am
By: ECU News Services
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Left-liberals may dominate universities in the United States, but another kind of liberal—the classical liberal—is finding its way into the fray.
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2014 @ 6:53 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Three years after the revelation that UNC-Chapel Hill’s African and Afro-American Studies Department offered no-show classes, the Carolina community is still grappling with academic-athletic scandals at the North Carolina flagship.
Published: Thursday, June 26th, 2014 @ 5:02 pm
By: Jenna Ashley Robinson
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Here's a look at other BCCC events happening on campus and in the community
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 4:35 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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Sometimes a book is useful in ways that its author did not intend. That's the case with Why Higher Education Should Have a Leftist Bias by Donald Lazere, a professor emeritus in the English Department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Published: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 @ 11:05 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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If it is really a kind of aggression to correct student grammar, composition teachers are unnecessary.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2014 @ 12:31 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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People of all political persuasions have identified significant problems plaguing the American system of higher education. President Obama outlined some reform ideas during a back-to-school tour of New York and Pennsylvania colleges. But Ohio University economist Richard Vedder, director of the...
Published: Sunday, January 5th, 2014 @ 7:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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