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Pioneer researcher receives lifetime achievement award
Published: Sunday, April 16th, 2023 @ 5:54 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Beaufort County Community College recognized its top-performing students on March 6 for high achievements and overcoming obstacles.
Published: Thursday, March 9th, 2023 @ 6:30 pm
By: Attila Nemecz
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Polling data shows that Democrats have a chance of losing both chambers of Congress. But it's not all doom and gloom! Democrats have some noteworthy achievements under their belt that they can cite to remind Americans why they should stay in power.
Published: Monday, October 24th, 2022 @ 12:37 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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While less than half of NC students are proficient in reading, math, and science, Wake Co. focuses on unjust goal of "equity"
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 12:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Award Winners to Be Honored at Annual Bernstein Dinner in October
Published: Thursday, August 18th, 2022 @ 5:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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ECU faculty members recognized for research and scholarship
Published: Thursday, March 24th, 2022 @ 8:23 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Faculty recognized for research, creative achievements, inventions and community engagement
Published: Thursday, March 24th, 2022 @ 11:10 am
By: ECU News Services
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Doug Domenech explains for Federalist readers key Trump administration environmental achievements that attract little attention from the Biden team.
Published: Friday, February 12th, 2021 @ 2:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's a colossal achievement.
Published: Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 @ 6:40 am
By: LifeZette
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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has just been re-elected.
Published: Thursday, November 12th, 2020 @ 12:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced that a coding education initiative, an auto repair and tire shop, and four individual North Carolinians have won NCWorks Awards of Distinction.
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2020 @ 9:13 pm
By: Governor's Office
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There’s no magic bullet. N.C. lawmakers admit as much when they discuss ways to boost student achievement in school districts labeled “predominantly disadvantaged.”
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 9:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In 2016, the General Assembly passed a bill that created the Achievement School District — later changed to the Innovative School District or ISD — which was tasked to coordinate the transfer of up to five persistently low-performing district schools to a charter school operator
Published: Monday, April 30th, 2018 @ 12:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite concerns from a handful of members, the State Board of Education voted April 5 to let Achievement for All Children operate the first Innovative School District school
Published: Saturday, April 7th, 2018 @ 4:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The list of schools eligible for the Innovative School District program just got a little smaller. Six schools remain as officials led by ISD Superintendent Eric Hall narrowed the list of schools eligible for the new program starting in the 2018-19 school year.
Published: Friday, September 29th, 2017 @ 7:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It seems that politicians and the media can’t stop talking about teacher pay. The claim that the average teacher salary will reach $50,000 this year has been the subject of numerous political advertisements, fact checks, and opinion pieces
Published: Saturday, November 26th, 2016 @ 1:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Poverty, early marriage and unsafe routes to school are a few of the obstacles preventing more than 60 million girls worldwide from receiving an education.
Published: Saturday, October 22nd, 2016 @ 9:17 am
By: ECU News Services
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Conservatives Should Support Achievement Districts
Published: Friday, August 26th, 2016 @ 12:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While teacher pay raises headlined education issues during North Carolina's 2016-17 legislative session, several other key policy changes were packed into the K-12 agenda, including measures that will provide performance-based bonuses for top educators across the state
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2016 @ 9:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When Representative Rob Bryan first proposed the idea of Achievement School Districts it seemed, at first, a pretty radical concept, but after a year of discussion we've not heard many alternatives put forward
Published: Friday, June 17th, 2016 @ 9:35 am
By: Tom Campbell
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By a 60-49 vote, the state House on Thursday passed a bill that would temporarily remove five of North Carolina's lowest-performing public schools from their districts, placing them instead under the supervision of an Achievement School District
Published: Saturday, June 4th, 2016 @ 6:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After some debate, a bill that would allow five of North Carolina's lowest-performing schools to be taken over by the state as part of a major rehabilitation effort passed on May 25 in the House Committee for K-12 Education
Published: Wednesday, June 1st, 2016 @ 10:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A state House committee on Wednesday looked at some of the successes and pitfalls neighboring Tennessee's Achievement School District has experienced as lawmakers pondered ways to turn around some of the state's worst performing schools.
Published: Saturday, April 2nd, 2016 @ 5:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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McCrory campaign manager Russell Peck released the following statement in response to Roy Cooper's newly released education plan.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 7:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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An East Carolina University faculty member has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry.
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 1:21 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Sixty-plus days past a July 1st deadline and North Carolina still has no state budget. One issue that many think is prolonging the current stalemate is what to do about teacher assistants (TAs). The best way to break the impasse is for the General Assembly to follow the state Senate's lead and...
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 8:13 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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State Rep. Rob Bryan plans to introduce legislation creating a pilot program transforming as many as five perpetually failing elementary schools into charter-like entities under a new Achievement School District with its own superintendent.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The East Carolina Heart Institute (ECHI) at Vidant Medical Center has received the Get With The Guidelines - Heart Failure Gold Plus Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. The recognition signifies that the East Carolina Heart Institute at Vidant Medical Center has reached an...
Published: Saturday, May 23rd, 2015 @ 11:59 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The annual Collaborative Conference for Student Achievement allows public school employees to hear from practitioners, experts, and advocates who share the goal of ensuring that all public school students are successful. I enjoy reviewing the presentations from the conference because they are...
Published: Saturday, April 4th, 2015 @ 7:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Approximately 375 undergraduate and graduate students as well as postdoctoral scholars are expected to present their research and creative work this week to fellow students, colleagues, faculty and the community at East Carolina University's Mendenhall Student Center.
Published: Friday, March 27th, 2015 @ 10:51 pm
By: ECU News Services
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For the sixth consecutive year, Vidant Medical Center has received the Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold-Plus Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association for the treatment of stroke.
Published: Thursday, November 20th, 2014 @ 11:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week, the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank located in D.C., released a new report on educational productivity. This study attempts to gauge the effectiveness of school district spending, that is, "bang for the buck."
Published: Sunday, July 20th, 2014 @ 9:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite all the talk of a "war on science" being waged by political conservatives and Republican politicians - to match their supposed wars on women, men, the young, and the old, no doubt - North Carolina now features a shrill and relentless rhetorical war on social science by political...
Published: Friday, June 13th, 2014 @ 12:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A survey of nearly 900 academic studies from the past quarter-century shows North Carolina has been moving in the right direction on education reform in recent years. That's a key conclusion from a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
Published: Saturday, May 24th, 2014 @ 8:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have a pretty utilitarian view of class sizes. Sometimes smaller class sizes make a big difference. Special needs students and those who require intensive instruction or remediation surely benefit from smaller classes.
Published: Saturday, February 8th, 2014 @ 7:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the more irritating features of popular political discourse involves the common problem of pundits and prognosticators fixating on a single fact or data point while ignoring broader, more important issues.
Published: Friday, August 23rd, 2013 @ 12:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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