I found a quite provocative post on a great new web site called The Federalist about North Carolina's public school system and its finances - a subject that Bill Barber and his mob, and their media lapdogs have been beating us over the head with.
Published: Monday, October 14th, 2013 @ 11:12 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Instruction's Common Core Demystified, (CCD) we confronted DPI's claims that Common Core Standards are state-led and DPI's assertion that teachers will maintain control of the curriculum and how subjects are taught.
Published: Tuesday, July 30th, 2013 @ 9:33 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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In a misnamed article, "Common Core is a conservative victory," Republican education reformers Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli used a recent News &Observer op-ed to try and persuade North Carolina conservatives to support the new national Common Core education standards.
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 @ 4:25 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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How many North Carolinians know that public school education in the state is centered around the government's Common Core initiative?
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2013 @ 9:15 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Gov. Pat McCrory was caught a bit off guard when he discussed higher education on Bill Bennett's radio show Tuesday. Some people are saying McCrory made a gaffe (or, less politely "stepped into it.")
Published: Sunday, February 3rd, 2013 @ 8:51 pm
By: Jane Shaw
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The Sept. 18 "Lunch and Learn: School Choice - the Road Ahead" highlighted wide public support for giving parents and students more choices in where they go to school.
Published: Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 @ 4:15 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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School accountability comes in two forms. Either parents keep schools accountable by "voting with their feet" or states compel public school districts to administer standardized tests.
Published: Thursday, September 20th, 2012 @ 2:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Between 1996 and 2012, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction authored, field-tested, administered, and analyzed nearly all end-of-grade and end-of-course tests under the ABCs of Public Education accountability program.
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2012 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Twenty years ago homeschooling was relegated to the fringes of K-12 education -- the spurned stepchild in a newly blended family of schooling options. Today homeschooling is a credible, viable educational choice that is garnering respect, even admiration, from outside educators.
Published: Saturday, May 19th, 2012 @ 8:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Demand for new charter schools in the Tar Heel State has surged following the enactment of a bill approved by the N.C. General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Bev Perdue in 2011 that lifted the 100-school cap.
Published: Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 @ 2:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia have requested waivers from the Federal government for No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation.
Published: Saturday, March 10th, 2012 @ 11:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina Rep. Bryan Holloway, the Republican co-chairman of the state legislature's education oversight committee and a schoolteacher himself, now says that there won't be enough time this year to work out the details of a performance-pay plan for public school teachers.
Published: Friday, March 9th, 2012 @ 4:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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