On Friday, December 18th, the North Carolina Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC) tasked with providing recommendations to replace Common Core standards held their last meeting. All indications over the prior fourteen months of meetings pointed to substantial changes being recommended.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 6:32 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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Professor Terrance Moore of Hillsdale College presents "How Common Core Destroys the Minds and Souls of our Children"
Published: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 3:56 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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We've had judges try to tell us that Jefferson, Adams & co. all created a right to taxpayer-funded abortion when they drafted our Constitution.
Published: Friday, October 10th, 2014 @ 7:20 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The NC Department of Administration announced the 11 members of the Academic Standards Review Commission and provided notice of its inaugural meeting.
Published: Sunday, September 21st, 2014 @ 8:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest today announced his intention to create the North Carolina Education Endowment aimed at supplementing teacher pay in our public schools.
Published: Monday, May 12th, 2014 @ 2:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest, responding to legislative action to replace Common Core State Standards in North Carolina, issued the following statement
Published: Wednesday, April 30th, 2014 @ 7:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The meeting will allow Sen. Cook to hear from his constituents on the recent implementation of Common Core Standards in the N.C. Public School System.
Published: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 @ 1:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Recently, I have encountered folks who blame the N.C. General Assembly for introducing the Common Core State Standards to North Carolina.
Published: Monday, March 10th, 2014 @ 4:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Do other professions require their "best" employees to give up an accomplishment to get a raise?
Published: Saturday, March 1st, 2014 @ 3:59 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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During his ten minute testimony, Forest expressed his belief that the Common Core standards roll out in NC represents a long term danger to local control of education decisions in our school systems.
Published: Friday, February 21st, 2014 @ 1:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Congressman Walter Jones takes action and relates it to his constituents through these press releases.
Published: Saturday, February 15th, 2014 @ 1:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In an editorial earlier this week, News & Observer editors admonished those who seek to slow down the implementation of Common Core Standards and want the state to back out from national testing requirements.
Published: Saturday, January 25th, 2014 @ 7:46 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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McCrory previewed his legislative agenda in a speech at the Hunt Institute's Holshouserhmc Legislators Retreat on Monday night, though he did not provide specific policy plans.
Published: Saturday, January 18th, 2014 @ 11:40 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Senator Bill Cook (R-District 1) is scheduled to hold a town hall meeting in Washington N.C., on Monday, Feb. 03, at 6:30 p.m.
Published: Wednesday, January 15th, 2014 @ 3:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's too bad that we have to turn to history books detailing events of generations long ago to appreciate principled American leaders.
Published: Thursday, January 2nd, 2014 @ 1:21 am
By: Brant Clifton
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On June 2, 2010 the North Carolina State Board of Education adopted the Common Core math and English Language Arts standards. Opinion regarding the quality of the English Language Arts (ELA) standards appears divided.
Published: Saturday, November 30th, 2013 @ 3:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Assumes national standards are the route to superior academic and economic performance.
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2013 @ 7:10 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The superintendent of the Department of Public Instruction, June Atkinson, has insisted that teachers were a crucial part of the state's planning process for Common Core.
Published: Thursday, September 19th, 2013 @ 5:40 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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On June 13 the state Department of Public Instruction (DPI) released Common Core Demystified. The document was intended to quell what DPI regarded as confusion and stem the growing public opposition to Common Core Standards (CCS).
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 11:21 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Last fall public schools in North Carolina along with 44 other states began implementing Common Core Standards.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2013 @ 9:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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In 2010 the North Carolina State Board of Education unanimously adopted national Common Core Standards (CCS) in English and mathematics.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2013 @ 9:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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